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Where is Zou spoken?

Zou is a Sino-Tibetan language, spoken in India and Myanmar. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

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Where Zou is spoken

Zou is spoken in 2 countries: India and Myanmar.

Country
India
Myanmar

Zou has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Zou?

Wikidata has only a figure for one place or one part of the language, so no total is given here.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Zou sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Zou as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Sino-Tibetan
  2. Kuki-Chin-Naga
  3. Kuki-Chin
  4. Peripheral Kuki-Chin
  5. Northeastern Kuki-Chin
  6. Sizangic
  7. Zou

Related languages

Other languages in the Sizangic group:

More about Zou

Codes: ISO 639-3 zom, Glottolog zouu1235. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Zou

Where is Zou spoken?

Zou is spoken in India and Myanmar. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Zou in?

Glottolog places Zou in the Sino-Tibetan family, in the branch Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Peripheral Kuki-Chin, Northeastern Kuki-Chin and Sizangic.

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