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{{Infobox language

| name = Thadou-Kuki

| altname = Thado, Thaadou, Thado-Pao

| nativename = Thadou

| states = [[India]]

| region = [[Manipur]]

| ethnicity = [[Thadou people]] and [[Kuki people]]

| speakers = {{sigfig|346600,100|2}}000 +

| date = 2011–2017

| ref = e25

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = [[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]]

| fam3 = [[Kuki-Chin-Naga languages|Kuki-Chin-Naga]]

| fam4 = [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]

| fam5 = [[Northern Kuki-Chin languages|Northern]]

| iso3 = tcz

| glotto = thad1238

| glottorefname = Thado Chin/Thadou Kuki

}}

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'''Thadou''' or '''Thado Chin/Thadou Kuki''' is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] language of the [[Northern Kuki-Chin languages|Northern]] [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin-Mizo]] sub-branch. It is spoken by the [[Thadou people]] in [[Northeast India]] (specifically in [[Manipur]] and [[Assam]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mahapatra|first1=Bijaya P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UhcLAQAAMAAJ&q=number+of+thadou+speaking+states+in+india|title=The Written Languages of the World: A Survey of the Degree and Modes of Use : Book 2, Non-Constitutional Languages|last2=Padmanabha|first2=P.|date=December 1989|publisher=Pr De L'Universite Laval|isbn=978-2-7637-7196-0|page=1311|language=en}}</ref>

The speakers of this language use [[Meitei language]] as their [[second language]] (L2) according to the [[Ethnologue]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=[[Ethnologue]] |language=en}}</ref>