Daai language

Daai, 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. A written script for Daai was created in 1976 by U Khine Sho and Ms. Halga So Hart Manno.
Mutual intelligibility among Nghngilo, Daai Yindu, and Mkui groups is high, but is lower among other groups. Daai has greater than 90% lexical similarity with Daai Yindu, Yang, Mkui, Duk, and Msang, 81%–88% with Ngxang and Kheng, 80% with Shiip, 91%–94% with Gah/Ng-Gha, and 81%–87% with Mün.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of daai Chin.

Daai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.

Daai has seven vowel phonemes, each with a phonemic length contrast.

Dai Chin is an isolating or analytic language. There is no inflectional morphology at the word level; case, number, and tense are marked by clitics.