Kuki-Chin

English

Proper noun

Kuki-Chin

  1. (linguistics) A branch of approximately fifty Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar, and southeastern Bangladesh.

Usage notes

  • Currently the most commonly understood term for this language family in English. Other synonyms like South Central Tibeto-Burman and South-Central Trans-Himalayan have been coined to avoid the use of the exonyms Kuki and Chin.
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