Daai language

Daai
Daai
Region	Myanmar
Ethnicity	Daai Chin
Native speakers	37,000 (2010)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Kuki-Chin Southern Daai; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dao
Glottolog	daai1236

Daai (also known as Daai Chin), which borders the Mün and Ütbü language groups, is a Kuki-Chin of Myanmar. It is spoken in 142 villages in Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, and Paletwa townships in Chin State, Burma (Ethnologue).

Mutual intelligibility among Nghngilo (Yang), Daa Yindu, and Mkui groups is high, but is lower among other groups.^[2] Daai has greater than 90% lexical similarity with Daa Yindu, Yang, Mkui, Duk, and Msang, 81%–88% with Ngxang (Paletwa township) and Kheng, 80% with Shiip (Matupi township), 91%–94% with Gah/Ng-Gha (part of Mün), and 81%–87% with Mün.^[2]

^ Daai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

[e18-1] Daai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[:0-2] "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.

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