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Lutuv language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6502107 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lutuv, widely known as Lautu Chin, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in 16 villages in Matupi townships, Thantlang townships and Hakha townships, Chin State, Myanmar. The Lutuv Chin language share 90%–97% lexical similarity. Lutuv Chin has 87%–94% lexical similarity with Mara Chin, 82%–85% with Zophe Chin, 80%–86% with Senthang Chin. A written script for Lutuv was created in 1960 by Rev. Fr. Andre Bareights and Michael Mg. Hre Hmung.

The Chin Languages Research Project with Lutuv translator Siy Hne Paa (Sui Hnem Par) have provided translations of ten short books into Lutuv. The Chin Languages Research Project has also a YouTube Channel.

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“Lutuv language” enters the record as language. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lutuv and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lutuv and language.
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“Lutuv language” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lutuv and language provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6502107. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lutuv language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.