Alternate Names: Haithe, Paite, Paithe, Parte, Zoukam
Dialects: Bukpi (Bukpui), Dapzal (Dapzar), Dim, Dimpi, Lamzang, Lousau, Saizang, Sihzang, Telzang (Teizang), Tuichiap.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 64,100 (2001 census).
Language Use: Also use Mizo [lus].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 75% (2005 BI). Literacy rate in L2: 79% (2001 census). Taught in primary schools. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1971–2005.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: India
Other Comments: A Scheduled Tribe. Paites in Mizoram speak Mizo (Go 1996). Most speak Teizang and Dapzal dialects (Singh 1995). Zomi is a collective ethnic autonym generally used by Tedim Chin of Myanmar, Paite, and Vaiphei of Manipur. Christian.