Purum language
| Purum | |
|---|---|
| Kharam | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Purum people |
Native speakers | 500 (2001 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
pub |
| Glottolog |
puru1262[2] |
Purum (Purum Naga) is a Kuki-Chin language of India. However, speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)[3] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam.
Geographical distribution
Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur (Ethnologue).
References
- ↑ Purum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Purum Naga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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.
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