Khamti language
| Khamti | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Burma, India |
| Ethnicity | Khamti people |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2000–2007)[1] |
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Tai–Kadai
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kht |
| Glottolog |
kham1290[2] |
Diorama of Khamti people in Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar.
Khamti (Thai: ภาษาไทคำตี่, pronounced [pʰāːsǎː tʰāj kʰām tìː]) is spoken in Sagaing, Burma and Assam, India (in the Dikrong Valley, Narayanpur, and north bank of the Brahmaputra) by the Khamti people.
There are some 30 Khamti-speaking villages in Arunachal Pradesh, and 7 in Assam.[3]
References
- ↑ Khamti at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Khamti". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Morey, Stephen. 2005. The Tai languages of Assam: a grammar and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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