Hnaring Lutuv Swadesh list

Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary 100-item Swadesh word list for Hnaring Lutuv. Lutuv or Lautu(ISO 639-3 CLT) belongs to the Maraic branch of Kuki-Chin within the Tibeto-Burman language family (Eberhard et. al, 2019). Hnaring is a Lutuv village in the southern part of the Lutuv-speaking area in Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar The word list comes from the intuitions of our co-author Sui Hnem Par,a 21-year-old native speaker born Near Mandalay of Lutuv parents (both from Hnaring), who lived for some of her childhood in Hnaring before moving to the US.

The syllable in Kuki-Chin

“…3 Special thanks are owed to four language assistants who have contributed their voices and intuitions to this and other projects: Zai Sung for Lawngtlang Zophei; Thomas Thawngza for Tlawngrang Zophei; Sui Hnem Par for Hnaring Lutuv; and Peng Hlei Thang for Hakha Lai. See also our other publications on Zophei (Lotven and Berkson 2019;Lotven et al 2019a), Lutuv (Lotven et al 2019b), and Hakha Lai (Danaher 2019;Lee and Berkson 2019;Wamsley 2019). Van Bik ( 2009) uses "Kuki-Chin" rather than "Chin" to include Thado Kuki, which he considers part of the Northern subgroup.…”