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 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
Nagaland () is a landlocked St ...
and is sometimes considered as a dialect of the
Yimkhiung Nagas.
References
{{Languages of Northeast India
Naga people
Languages of Nagaland
Ao languages