<div dir="ltr">Hi friends,<div>Attached is an ethnic/language map of Chin State developed by Paing Nan, the Director of Language and Social Development Organization, a Myanmar national NGO, with some assistance from me.</div><div><br></div><div>A few notes:</div><div><ul><li>This is the first map to show boundaries by village to my knowledge<br><br></li><li><b>Source:</b> The basis for the data is Paing Nan's personal fieldwork in these areas, as well as checking with many community members. There may still be errors and input is welcome.<br><br></li><li><b>Scope:</b> This is NOT a map of all Chin
speech varieties
but instead of all the speech varieties in Chin State. Thus, Chin
speech varieties
spoken by communities outside of Chin State are not included and non-Chin
speech varieties
spoken in Chin State (Rakhine, Anu, Khongso) are included<br><br></li><li><b>Criteria for including a group:</b> The speech varieties shown here include more splits than the ISO 639-3 standard has. Certain groups maintain separate identities even where linguistic similarity is high. I would personally like to see the ISO 639-3 criteria permit these groups to be split (especially Eastern Khumi [cek], Anu-Khongso [anl], Falam [cfm]). The general principle for this map has been to represent separately groups that identify separately (and with distinct names). In many cases, these represent separate literature efforts (since the Chin are quite active in language development) but in some cases, there is not a separate literature effort (such as for example Vangteh). In other cases, one group has multiple writing systems and different efforts are based on different varieties within one named group (such as the Matu).<br><br></li><li><b>Group names</b>: For many of the groups, there is a generally accepted name and spelling. However, some groups do not have this agreement. In those cases, we have tried to use a historically more accepted name/spelling. Some examples include Daai vs. Dai, Mro-Khimi vs. Khimi vs. Mro, Thado vs. Kuki, Zophei vs. Zyphe.<br> </li><li><b>Village names:</b> The village names are the English spellings in the MIMU village database</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Nathan</div></div>