Tawr language

Tawr
	Tawr Chin
	Laamtuk Thet
Region	Burma
Native speakers	(700 cited 1996)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Central Tawr; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tcp
Glottolog	tawr1235

Tawr (Tawn Chin), or Laamtuk Thet, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in two villages of Hakha Township, Chin State, Burma.

VanBik (2009:48) proposes the name Laamtuk Thet (from the speakers' autonym Thet), and notes that Thawr is in fact a derogatory exonym that means ‘dirty’ or ‘sour’ in Hakha. It is spoken in Laamtuk and Ruavaan villages, located about 60 miles southeast of Hakha town (VanBik 2009:48).

References

Tawr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages. STEDT Monograph 8. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.

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[e18-1] Tawr at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)