The language of the neighboring villages of Kaachai and Padāng in
Manipur
Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a States and territories of India, state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It ...
, India, constitute a
Tangkhulic
The Tangkhulic and Tangkhul languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mostly in northeastern Manipur, India. Conventionally classified as "Naga," they are not clearly related to other Naga languages, and (with Maringic) are conservat ...
language. It is spoken by about 3,000 people in Kachai village, west-central
Ukhrul District
Ukhrul district ( Meitei pronunciation:/ˈuːkˌɹəl or ˈuːkˌɹʊl/) is an administrative district of the state of Manipur in India with its headquarters at Ukhrul, that is Hunphun. The district occupies the north-eastern corner of the state ...
. Phadāng is only attested from 1859.
References
*Mortensen, David R. and James A. Miller (2013). �
A reconstruction of Proto-Tangkhulic rhymes” Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(1): 1-32.
*Mortensen, David R. (2012)
''Database of Tangkhulic Languages'' (unpublished ms. contributed to STEDT).
*Mortensen, David R. and James A. Miller (2009). �
” International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics 42, Chiangmai, November 4.
*Mortensen, David R. (2003). �
Comparative Tangkhul” Unpublished Qualifying Paper, UC Berkeley.
*Mortensen, David. 2014
The Tangkhulic Tongues - How I Started Working on Endangered Languages
Tangkhulic languages
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