Only certain loanwords, not native words, have the voiced velar plosive. The phoneme itself was lost in all of its daughter languages, due to a spirantisation to ɣ, which a labialisation followed afterwards. The unattested parent language, Proto-Chin, featured a voiced velar plosive ɡ. Ĭonsonants allowed in syllable codas are /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l, r, j, w/.Ĭonsonants /m, n, ŋ, l, r/ occurring in syllable-final position may also occur as glottalized.

Additionally, two sets of sonorants are realised.

The Hakha Chin language differentiates between voiced, voiceless, and voiceless aspirated obstruents. ( November 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Full syllables are either open or closed with a rising, falling, or low tone. Words in the Hakha Chin language are predominantly monosyllabic with some sesqui syllables featuring a 'reduced syllable'. The Chin people use Latin script (Hakha alphabet) as their writing system. These people live here temporarily or permanently, and their families eventually learn how to speak Lai holh (Hakha). As the capital of Chin State, Hakha provides government employment and business opportunities to people living elsewhere in Chin State. Derived from the same Lai dialect and sharing 85% of their phonology, Falam Chin speakers can easily communicate with Hakha speakers. Hakha Chin serves as a lingua franca in most parts of Chin State and is a native language in Hakha, Thantlang, and parts of Matupi. Nowadays, more than fifty thousand Hakha Chin speakers are living in the Western countries, such as Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, and the United States, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The Hakha Chin (Lai) speakers are largely in Chin State, Burma and Mizoram in Northeast India, with a small number of speakers in south-eastern Bangladesh. The speakers are largely concentrated in Chin State in western Myanmar and Mizoram in eastern India, with a small number of speakers in south-eastern Bangladesh. The total figure includes 2,000 Zokhua and 60,100 Hakha speakers.

Hakha Chin, or Laiholh, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by 446,264 people, mostly in Myanmar.

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