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 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