Tikhir language

Tikhir is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Tikhir Naga (Yimchunger) community in northeast India. It is related to other Yimchungrü language and is sometimes considered as a dialect of the Yimchunger tribe.

Tikhir
RegionNagaland
EthnicityTikhir Naga, Yimchunger
Native speakers
11,028 [1] (2011)
Sino-Tibetan
  • Central Naga languages
    • Tikhir
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologtikh1241[2]

References

  1. "Census of language in India 2011". MHA, Govt of India.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tikhir". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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