Muhammad Zakaria Muhammad Zakaria is a Swiss National Science Foundation Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Bern. What two decades with Hyow taught me about language loss 20 February 2026, 23:01 PM The word ‘Hyow’ refers to the Chin ethnic community, which belongs to the South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. 20 February 2026, 23:01 PM