Yimchungrü language
| Yimchungrü | |
|---|---|
| Yachumi | |
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A Yimchunger Naga woman at the morung of Kutur village | |
| Native to | Nagaland, India |
| Region | West-central Nagaland, Workha district |
Native speakers | 92,000 (2001 census)[1] |
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Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
yim |
| Glottolog |
yimc1240[2] |
Yimchungrü (Yimchungrü Naga), also Yachumi (Yatsumi), is an endangered Ao language spoken in northeast India by the Yimchunger Naga people.
Yimchungrü is part of the Ao family of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Yimchungrü is severely endangered,[1] meaning it is a language at a very high risk of extinction this century. The number of speakers is about 90,000 people.[1]
Dialects
Dialects of the Yimchungrü Naga include the following: Chirr, Minir, Pherrongre, Tikhir, Wai, Yimchungru.
References
- 1 2 3 Yimchungrü at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yimchungru Naga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Kumar, Braj Bihari. (1973). Hindi–Yimchungrü–English dictionary. Kohima, India: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad.
- (2004). Where on earth do they speak Naga, Yimchungru? Retrieved from http://www.verbix.com/maps/language/NagaYimchungru.html
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