Tikhir is a
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language spoken by the
Tikhir Naga
The Tikhir are a Naga tribe from Nagaland, India. They are listed as a Scheduled Tribe
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups ...
community in northeast India. It is related to other
Yimkhiungrü language
Yimkhiungrü, also Yachumi (Yatsumi) in Sümi, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeast India by the Yimkhiung Naga people. It is spoken between Namchik and Patkoi in Shamator District, eastern Nagaland, India. Yimkhiungrü language has m ...
and is sometimes considered as a dialect of the
Yimkhiung Nagas.
References
{{Languages of Northeast India
Naga people
Languages of Nagaland
Ao languages