Konyak languages

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Konyak
Northern Naga
Geographic distribution:	India
Linguistic classification:	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Brahmaputran Konyak
Subdivisions:	Konyak–Chang Tangsa–Nocte
Ethnologue code:	`17-4066`

The Konyak languages, or Northern Naga, are a small family of half a dozen Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Naga people in southeastern Arunachal Pradesh and northeastern Nagaland states of northeastern India. They are not particularly closely related to other Naga languages. The best known Konyak languages are Konyak and Nocte.

The Konyak languages are some of the most neglected of the Tibeto-Burman family. No thorough research has been done apart from few books written during the colonial era.^{[citation needed]} There are a large number of divergent dialects, and villages even a few kilometers apart frequently have to rely on a separate common language.

Languages

Konyak–Chang: Konyak, Chang, Wancho, Phom, Khiamniungan–Ponyo–Htangan
Tangsa–Nocte: Tase (Tangsa), Nocte, Tutsa

Ethnologue 17 adds Makyan, which is not close to languages against which it has been tested.

References

George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.

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