Alternate Names: Baite, Bete, Biate
Dialects: None known. Reportedly similar to Hrangkhol ,, and similar enough to Mizo , and Hmar , that they can be read with comprehension.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 19,000 (IMA 1997).
Language Use: Home, village, church. Also use Hindi [hin] in Assam. Khasi [kha] in Meghalaya. War Jaintia [aml] in Meghalaya. Also use Mizo [lus]. Used as L2 by Sakachep [sch].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 56%. Bible: 2005.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: India
Other Comments: A Scheduled Tribe. An ethnic subgroup of the Mizo. Not the same as the Biate dialect of Chin Thado , (Breton 1997). Christian (Protestant).