Some notes on Maraa

Abstract

Most of what today is known about Mama (generally written Mara, to be pronounced Maraa), a language of the Chin group of Sino-Tibetan, we owe to Reginald Arthur Lorrain. His Grammar and Dictionary of the Lakher or Mara Language was published posthumously in 1951 by the Government of Assam. Due to Lorrain's "Lakher Pioneer Mission", the Mama became a literate people. Today, at least on the Indian side of the international border by which the British preferred to divide them up between India and Burma, they are managing their own affairs within the possibilities of an Autonomous District of Mizoram State.