Kharam language

Kharam
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Kharam people
Native speakers	1,400 (2000)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Naga languages Northwestern Kharam; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfw
Glottolog	khar1288 Kharam Naga[2]

Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)[3] classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum.

Geographical distribution

Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of Manipur (Ethnologue).

Senapati district: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages
Chandel district: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages

References

Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kharam 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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[e18-1] Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kharam Naga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Peterson2017-3] 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.