Purum language

Purum
Purum
	Purum written in Meitei script
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Purum people
Native speakers	500 (2001 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin-Naga Southern Naga Purum; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pub
Glottolog	puru1266
	Purum is classified as Critically Endangered language by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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Purum (Purum Naga) is a Southern Naga language of India. 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. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[4]

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) (subscription required)
^ Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexander, eds. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (PDF) (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022.
^ 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.
^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.

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[e18-1] Purum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexander, eds. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (PDF) (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022.

[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.

[4] "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.

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