Daai language

Dai (also known as Daia Chin), 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 (Ethnologue).

Mutual intelligibility among Nghngilo (Yang), Daa Yindu, and Mkui groups is high, but is lower among other groups. Dai has greater than 90% lexical similarity with Daa Yindu, Yang, Mkui, Duk, and Msang, 81%–88% with Ngxang (Paletwa township) and Kheng, 80% with Shiip (Matupi township), 91%–94% with Gah/Ng-Gha (part of Mün), and 81%–87% with Mün.

Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Daai Chin.


 * Ngxang
 * Nghngilo (Yang)
 * Ma-Tu
 * Shiip
 * Duk-Msang
 * Kheng
 * Mkuui
 * Yet

Consonants
Daai has twenty-four consonant phonemes.

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

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