Moyon language
Moyon | |
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Moyon Naga | |
Native to | India |
Region | Nagaland, Manipur |
Native speakers | 3,700 (2001)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
nmo |
Glottolog |
moyo1238 [3] |
Moyon (Moyon Naga) is a Kuki-Chin-Naga language. It is spoken in Manipur, India and Burma.
Classification
Scott DeLancey (2015)[4] classifies Moyon as a "Northwest Kuki-Chin" language.
Geographical distribution
Moyon is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
- Chandel district, Manipur: 14 villages including Moyon Khullen, Khongjom, Mitong, Komlathabi, Penaching, and Heigru Tampak
- Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)
References
- ↑ Moyon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Moyon Naga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental 44(2):122-149. December 2015. doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02
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