Yimchungrü language

Yimchungrü (Yimchungrü Naga), also Yachumi (Yatsumi) in Sema, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeast India by the Yimchunger Naga people. It is spoken between Namchik and Patkoi in Tuensang district, eastern Nagaland, India. Yimchungrü language is spoken by more than one lakh plus people in about 100 plus villages and towns. [3]

Yimchungrü
Yachumi
Native toNagaland, India
RegionEastern and some parts of Western Nagaland, Tuensang and Dimapur districts
EthnicityYimchunger Naga
Native speakers
83,259 (2011 census)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Central Naga
    • Yimchungrü
Language codes
ISO 639-3yim
Glottologyimc1240[2]

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Yimchungrü.

References
  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yimchungru Naga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Yimchungrü language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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