Mara
Mara
Pronunciation	/m̥ara/
Spoken in	Mizoram, India; Chin State;Myanmar
Region	Southeast Asia
Total speakers	India: 47,000 (MADC, 2003) Myanmar: 37,000 (MEC,BAM 2005)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin Southern Mara
Writing system	Latin alphabet
Official status
Official language in	none, recognized as a minority language in Mizoram
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	mrh
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The Mara language is a language spoken by Mara people living in South Mizoram, India and the adjacent people living in Chin State in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

The Mara language belongs to the Kuki-Chin-Naga group of Tibeto-Burman stock of the great Sino-Tibetan family of languages. The speakers of the language are also known as Mara.

Mara is a recognised language in the School curriculum of Mara Autonomous District Council (MADC). Mara is a compulsory subject for all schools up to Class VII (Middle School) under Board of School Education, MADC.

Contents 1 Statistics 2 Plurals 3 Adjectives 4 Pronouns: 5 External links

[edit] Statistics

• Population: 20,000 in Myanmar (1994), 22,000 in India (1997). (Sorry for outdated statistic)
• Region: Lushai Hills.
• Alternate names: Lakher, Mara, Maram, Mira, Zao
• Dialects: Tlongsai, Hlawthai, Sabeu.

[edit] Plurals

The plural form of a noun is formed by affixing one of the following terms to the end of the noun:

• zeu
• zeu-dua
• naw
• sha-hlawh

[edit] Adjectives

Adjectives are placed before the word they qualify. e.g., A good man) When an adjective is used to complete the predicate of a sentence, a pronominal particle agreeing with the subject is placed before the adjective.

[edit] Pronouns:

Singular:

• 1st person-i I
• 2nd person-na Thou
• 3rd person-a He,She,It

Plural:

• 1st person-ima We
• 2nd person-nama You
• 3rd person-ama They

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue Ethnologue
• Maraland.NET Home of Mara language speaking people
• Maraland.org MITCS website
• Entry for Mara at Rosetta Project
• A grammar and dictionary of the Lakher language (1908) (Scanned book at the Internet Archive)

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