Biete

Facts

  • Language: Biete
  • Alternate names: Bete, Baite, Biate
  • Language code: biu
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Sal, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Northern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 19,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    A Scheduled Tribe. An ethnic subgroup of the Mizo. Not the same as the Biate dialect of Chin Thado (See: [[Chin, Thado]]) (Breton 1997). Christian.

    Biete is spoken in India, South Asia.