page_title: Lai people
section_title: Chin States
hierarchical_section_title: Lai people / Chin States
caption_attribution_description: English: Position of Chin State Deutsch: Lage des Chin State
context_page_description: Strictly speaking, Lai are the people belonging to the Lai Autonomous District Council of Mizoram, North-East India and Hakha, Thantlang, and Falam of Chin State, Myanmar. Lai people can also be found outside their main dominant area. From a historical point of view, Lai is one of a dominant tribe of the so-called Chin-Kuki-Mizo, the community is scattered in different parts of the world, mainly concentrating in Mizoram, Chin Hills of Burma, South Bangladesh, etc.
context_section_description: Chin state is 13,907 square miles. Border by Sagaing Division to the east, Magway Division to the south-east, Rakhine State to the south, and Mizoram to the west. According to the 2014 Myanmar population and housing census the population of Chin state is about 478,801, 47.95% male, and 52.05% female. Hakha is the capital city of Chin state and there are nine townships: Hakha, Htantlang, Falam, Tiddim, Tonzang, Matupi, Mindat, Kanpalet, and Paletwa. Each township have their own subtribe and there are about 53 subtribes. There are about 45 dialect of the Chin language. Of these, the most widely spoken dialects are estimated and they are:
  Tedim Chin 344,000 speakers
  Falam Chin an estimated 107,300 speakers
  Hakha Chin 125,000 speakers
  Matu Chin 100,000 speakers
  "Each dialect is so distinct that people who speak different dialects will not likely understand each other".
caption: Red region is Chin state
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