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Language code: lus

Technical information about ISO 639 language code lus

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The table below provides technical details for the Lushai language, designated by the lus code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

lus

Name

Lushai

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central Mizo (Duhlian/Lusei)HmarPaiteRalteThadoPawi (Lai)Mara (Lakher)
Related languages
Hakha ChinFalam ChinZomi (Tedim Chin)BawmBurmese
Key facts
Belongs to the northern branch of the Central Kuki-Chin subgroup of Tibeto-BurmanThe current 24-letter Latin-based orthography was devised by Welsh missionaries in 1894Mizo has three phonemic tones (high, mid, low) that change word meaningVerbs show aspect and mood chiefly through stem alternation and post-verbal particles rather than affixesVocabulary exhibits noticeable borrowing from Bengali, Assamese and Burmese due to trade and missionary contact
Sample phrase

Chibai, i dam em?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Lushai language, identified by the code lus, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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