Purum (Purum Naga) is a
Southern Naga language of India. Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic
Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)
[Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. ''Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley'', 189-209. Leiden: Brill.] classifies Purum as part of the ''Northwestern'' branch of Kuki-Chin. According ''Ethnologue'', Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with
Kharam.
The speakers of this language use
Meitei language
Meitei (; ) also known as Manipuri ), is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. It is the official language and the lingua franca of Manipur and an additional official language in four districts of Assam. It is one of the scheduled ...
as their
second language (L2) according to the
Ethnologue.
Geographical distribution
Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of
Senapati district,
Manipur (''
Ethnologue'').
References
Languages of Manipur
Endangered languages of India
Southern Naga languages
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