The Lai people[a] (also called Pawi people)[1][b] mainly inhabit the southern parts of Chin Hills in Myanmar's Chin State, in the townships of Falam, Thantlang and Hakha.[3] They are also found in the Lawngtlai district of Mizoram, India, where they have been granted the Lai Autonomous District Council. Outside this area they are scattered in Mizoram and in Manipur. Their languages "Laizo Lai" and "Hakha Lai" are classified as Central Kuki-Chin languages.[4]
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- ^ Pau, Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills (2019), pp. 15–16.
- ^ Dun, Gazetteer of Manipur (1886), p. 32.
- ^ Pau, Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills (2019), pp. 15–16: "The Hakas, Thantlangs, Zokhua, Thettas, Kapis and so forth populated the Haka area. The Hakas and the Thantlangs called themselves Lai/Laimi, and they are similar to the Shindu/Shendu/Mara/Lakher of the British records from the Chittagong and Arakan Hill Tracts.".
- ^ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN 9781315399492