Mizo

About Mizo

Mizo is the main language of the state of Mizoram in northeastern India, where it is an official language together with English. It is also spoken in neighbouring parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh. The 2011 census of India counted about 830,000 speakers. Mizo is a tonal Sino-Tibetan language and is written in the Latin alphabet, which missionaries introduced in the 1890s.

FamilySino-Tibetan, Kuki-Chin
Speakersabout 830,000 in India (2011)
Official inIndia (Mizoram)
ScriptLatin alphabet
Codelus (ISO 639-3)

Speaker number: Census of India (2011). Classification: Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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