The Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages, originally called Old Kuki languages, is a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.[1][2]
Most speakers identify as part of tribes grouped as Old Kukis or ethnic Nagas. Andrew Hsiu (2019) gives the name Southern Naga for Northwestern Kuki-Chin languages.[3][4]
Languages
Scott DeLancey et al. (2015) and Graham Thurgood (2016) list the following languages as Northwestern Kuki-Chin.
^Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, pp. 22–23, ISBN9781315399492
Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN0-944613-47-0.