Zou
Zou is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India and Myanmar, by about 61 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Zou (also spelled Zo and known as Zoham or Zokam) is a language of the Northeastern branch of Kuki-Chin languages originating in western Burma and spoken also in Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India.
The term Zou (more often "Zo") is sometimes used as a blanket term for the languages spoken by the Kuki-Chin-Mizo peoples.
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Words in Zou
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mi | |
| eye | mit | |
| nose | na | |
| tooth | ha | |
| tongue | lei | |
| head | lu | |
| water | tui | |
| fire | mei | |
| fish | nga | |
| cow | bong | |
| pig | vok | |
| snake | gul | |
| one | khet | |
| two | ni | |
| three | thum | |
| four | li | |
| five | nga | |
| ten | som | |
| hundred | za | |
| I | kei | |
| we | ei | |
| give | pie | |
| salt | chi | |
| house | in |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Paite ChinSino-Tibetan70% alike
- Tedim ChinSino-Tibetan67% alike
- Bualkhaw ChinSino-Tibetan62% alike
- VaipheiSino-Tibetan61% alike
- RalteSino-Tibetan57% alike
- Thado ChinSino-Tibetan55% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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