Wancho language
| Wancho | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
Native speakers | 49,000 (2001 census)[1] |
|
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Devanagari, Latin, Wancho | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nnp |
| Glottolog |
wanc1238[2] |
Wancho is a Konyak language of north-eastern India. Wancho is spoken in 36 villages of southeastern Longding district, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh, as well as in Assam and Nagaland (Ethnologue). Alternate names include Banpara Naga, Joboka, Jokoba.
Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Wancho.
- Changnoi
- Bor Muthun (Bor Mutonia)
- Horu Muthun
- Kulung Muthun (Mithan)
There is significant variation among the dialects spoken in the upper and lower regions.
Orthography
| Wancho | |
|---|---|
| Type |
Alphabet
|
| Languages | Wancho |
| Creator | Banwang Losu |
| Created | 2001 |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| ISO 15924 |
Wcho, 283 |
Wancho is generally written in either Devanagari or Latin script. Between 2001 and 2012 teacher Banwang Losu devised a unique Wancho script which is taught in some schools.[3]
References
- ↑ Wancho at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wancho Naga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Everson, Michael (2017-07-26). "L2/17-067R: Proposal to encode the Wancho script in the UCS" (PDF).
- Robbins Burling & Mankai Wangsu (1998) "Wancho Phonology and word list, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 21.2.
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