Sakachep language
Sakachep, also known as Khelma, is a Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Northeast India. Dialects are Khelma, Thangachep, and Sakachep (Ethnologue). VanBik (2009)[3] classifies Sakachep as closely related to Hmar.
Sakachep | |
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Khelma | |
Region | India |
Ethnicity | Sakachep |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2003)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sch |
Glottolog | saka1283 [2] |
Geographical distribution
Ethnologue reports the following locations for Sakachep.
- Karbi Anglong district, Dima Hasao district (formerly North Cachar Hills district), and Cachar district of Assam
- Khelma village, Kohima district, Nagaland
- Saithsma, Rumphung, and Mongor villages of Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya
- Tripura
- Mizoram
- Manipur
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References
- Sakachep at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sakachep". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.
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