Uppu language

Uppu
Chinbon
Native toMyanmar
Native speakers
44,000 (2017)
Language codes
ISO 639-3cnb
Glottologchin1478

Uppu or Chinbon Chin is a Southern Kuki-Chin language dialect cluster of Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.

Geographical distribution

Chinbon (Uppu) is spoken in the following townships of Myanmar.

Mayin and Longpaw have 84–91% intelligibility with the Uppu dialects, and 90% intelligibility with Minkya dialect.

References

  1. ↑ Uppu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Ethnologue
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