Paite Chin

Facts

  • Language: Paite Chin
  • Alternate names: Paite, Oarte, Paithe, Parte, Haithe, Zoukam, Chin (Paite), Vuite, Chin, Paite
  • Language code: pck
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Sal, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Northern (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 64,100
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    A Scheduled Tribe. Paites in Mizoram speak Mizo (Go 1996). Most speak Teizang and Dapzal dialects (Singh 1995). Zomi is a collective ethnic autonym generally used by Tedim Chin of Myanmar, Paite, and Vaiphei of Manipur. Christian.

    Paite Chin is spoken in India, South Asia.