Daai language


Daai, which borders the Mün and Ütbü language groups, is a Kuki-Chin-Mizo language of Burma. It is spoken in 142 villages in Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, and Paletwa townships in Chin State, Burma.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Dai Chin.

Consonants

Daai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.
BilabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Nasals
Plosives
Fricatives
Lateral Fricatives
Approximants

Vowels

Daai has seven vowel phonemes, each with a phonemic length contrast.

Grammar

Daai is an isolating or analytic language. There is no inflectional morphology at the word level; case, number, and tense are marked by clitics.

Examples