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Daai language
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] DialectsEthnologue lists the following dialects of Dai Chin.
PhonologyConsonantsDai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.
VowelsDai has seven vowel phonemes, each with a phonemic length contrast.
GrammarDai is an isolating or analytic language. There is no inflectional morphology at the word level; case, number, and tense are marked by clitics. Examples
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