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The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.

Most speakers identify as part of tribes grouped as Old Kukis or ethnic Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) gives the name Southern Naga for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages.

Languages

Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.

• Aimol
• Anal
• Chiru
• Chothe
• Halam
• Kharam
• Koren
• Kom
• Lamkang
• Monsang
• Moyon
• Purum
• Sorbung
• Tarao

References

1. DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth; Amos Teo, Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015.
2. Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 22–23, ISBN 9781315399492
3. Doke, C. M. (2017-09-20), "The Morphology of the Southern Bantu Languages", The Southern Bantu Languages, Routledge, pp. 47–90, ISBN 978-1-315-10454-6, retrieved 2023-09-28
4. Andrew Hsiu. "Kuki-Chin-Naga languages". Sino-Tibetan Branches Project. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019.

Bibliography

• DeLancey, Scott (ed) Panel session: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. Lancaster University, 2015.
• Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
• VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
• Zograf, Georgiĭ Aleksandrovich (1982), Languages of South Asia : a guide, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul – via archive.org

v t e Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)	West Himalayish Tamangic Newaric Newar Baram–Thangmi Kiranti Dhimalish Dhimal Toto Lhokpu Lepcha Greater Magaric Magaric Magar Kham Chepangic Chepang Bhujel Raji–Raute Dura–Tandrange
Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)	Bodish Tibetic East Bodish Tshangla Basum Nam? Gongduk ʼOle Tani Chamdo
Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border	Karbi Kuki-Chin Mruic Mru Hkongso Pyu Taman "Naga" Ao Angami–Pochuri Meitei Tangkhulic Zeme Sal Boro–Garo Konyak Jingpho–Luish
East and Southeast Asia	Sinitic Bai Tujia Nungish Karenic Gong Kathu Cai–Long Caijia Longjia Luren Burmo-Qiangic Qiangic Gyalrongic Ersuic Naic Lolo-Burmese Mondzish Burmish Loloish
Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal)	Hrusish Hruso Mijiic Kho-Bwa Puroik Miju–Meyor Songlin Greater Siangic Siangic Koro Milang Idu–Taraon
Proposed groupings	Central Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin–Naga Macro-Bai Mahakiranti Rung Tibeto-Burman Tibeto-Kanauri
Proto-languages	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Proto-Tibeto-Burman Proto-Loloish Proto-Karenic Proto-Min Proto-Hakka
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.

• Southern Naga languages