Apatani language

Apatani
tanii
Region Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity Apatani people
Native speakers
 28,000  (2001 census)[1]
Sino-Tibetan

  • Tani

    • Western Tani
      • Apatani
Language codes
ISO 639-3 apt
Glottolog apat1240[2]

Apatani (Apa Tani, Tanii) is a small Tani language of India. As most endangered oral languages, Apatani does not have a standardized orthography, and there is still some debate among the Apatanis on which script should be used to transcribe it.

References

  1. ↑ Apatani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Apatani". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.