Maraic languages

Maraic
Ethnicity	Mara
Geographic distribution	Mizoram, India and Chin State, Myanmar
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Maraic
Glottolog	mara1381  (Maraic)

The Maraic languages are a branch of Kuki-Chin languages.

Languages

The Maraic languages are (VanBik 2009:23):

• Mara (Tlôsaih)
• Lyvaw (Lochei and Chira)
• Sizo ( Chapi, Ngaphe and Sabyh)
• Lutuv (Lytu/Kahno)
• Zophei (Vawngtu, Leitak)
• Senthang
• Zotung (Calthawng, Innmai, Lungngo)
• Hlaipao (Vahapi [Zyhno], Heima and Lialai)

Sound changes

VanBik (2009) lists the following sound changes from Proto-Kuki-Chin to Proto-Maraic.

• Proto-Kuki-Chin *-p, *-t, *-k > Proto-Maraic *-ʔ
• Proto-Kuki-Chin *-ʔ > Proto-Maraic zero
• Proto-Kuki-Chin *-r, *-l > Proto-Maraic zero
• Proto-Kuki-Chin *kr- > Proto-Maraic *ts-

References

• 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. ISBN 0-944613-47-0.