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The Lai languages or Pawih/Pawi languages are various Central Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages spoken by the Lai people or Pawi. They include “ Lai?ong” ( Falam-Chin ) spoken in Falam district, Laiholh ( Hakha-Chin ) spoken around the Haka (Hakha/Halkha) capital of Chin State in Burma (Myanmar) and in the Lawngtlai district of Mizoram , India. In Bangladesh, a related language is spoken by the Bawm people . Other Lai languages are Mi-E (including Khualsim), and the Zokhua dialect of Hakha Lai spoken in Zokhua village. ^[1]

Grammar [ edit ]

Deletion of the final consonant can be observed here in stem II. However, this is irregular as most verbs usually revive or gain a consonant in stem II. This stem is used to indicate the distant future tense , subjunctive mood, cohortative mood, hortative mood, jussive mood and more. ^[2]

References [ edit ]

• Stephen Ni Kio, Lai Nunphung .
• Hakha Lai - By David A. Peterson, Chapter Twenty Five.
• Kenneth VanBik, Three Types Of Causative Instruction In Hakha Lai, University of California, Berkeley.
• VanBik, David (1986) English?Chin (Haka) Dictionary , Haka.
• Haye-Neave, D.R. (1948) Lai Chin grammar and dictionary , Rangoon: Superintendent of Government Printing and Stationery, Burma.
• George Bedell, AGREEMENT IN MIZO - Papers from the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society , Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, pp. 51?70, 2001.
• George Bedell, AGREEMENT IN LAI - Papers from the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society , Tempe, Arizona: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, pp. 21?32, 1995.