Zo language

E575834

Zo language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Zo people in parts of northeastern India and Myanmar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Zo language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
belongsToMacroGroup Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages
linked to: Kuki-Chin languages
closelyRelatedTo Paite language
Tedim language
Thadou language
country India
Myanmar
ethnicGroup Zo people
hasAlternativeName Zo
Zou
Zou language
hasDomain community
home
local churches
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasGlottocode zoul1235
hasISO639-3Code zom
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
hasNeighborLanguage Hmar language
Lai language
Mizo language
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
hasReligiousTextTranslation Bible (partial or full translations)
hasScriptOrigin Roman alphabet
hasStandardForm Zo (India) standard
Zo (Myanmar) standard
isMinorityLanguageIn India
Myanmar
isPartOf Kuki-Chin languages
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars
linguistic fieldwork in Northeast India
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
region Chin Hills
Northeast India
spokenBy Zo people
spokenIn India
Myanmar
Northeastern India
linked to: Northeast India
subfamily Northern Kuki-Chin
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
religious practices
usedInEducation primary level in some areas
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kuki-Chin languages hasMember Zo language
Zo people speaks Zo language
Kuki-Chin group hasMemberLanguage Zo language
Vaiphei language closelyRelatedTo Zo language