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I have a student working on a museum anthropology project with another faculty member who came to me looking for some help with a question related to Chin languages. She asks:</div>
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"My question is about the name of the tunic. I keep seeing different names for it such as "khran in", "khrangimm", and "krang im" among others. I am curious about why there is so much variation. Is it just a difference between dialects or maybe a translation
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It sounds like dialectal variation and/or an issue of transliteration to me, but I have no experience with this language family. If anyone has a more precise answer for her, she'd be very grateful. An image of a tunic in question is attached.</div>
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