Rengma language
Appearance
Rengma | |
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Southern Rengma | |
Native to | India |
Region | Nagaland |
Ethnicity | Rengma Naga |
Native speakers | (21,000 cited 1997)[1] 65,300 total Rengma (2011 census) |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nre |
Glottolog | sout2732 |
ELP | Southern Rengma Naga |
Rengma, or Southern Rengma, is an Angami–Pochuri language spoken in Nagaland, India.[2]
Names
[edit]Alternate names and dialect names of Rengma include Injang, Moiyui, Mon, Mozhumi, Nzong, Nzonyu, Rengma, Rengma Naga, Southern Rengma, Unza and Western Rengma (Ethnologue).
Dialects
[edit]Ethnologue reports the following dialects of Rengma.
- Keteneneyu
- Azonyu (Nzonyu, Southern Rengma)
Tseminyu is the principal dialect main center. Southern Rengma and Northern Rengma are reportedly inherently unintelligible.
Geographical distribution
[edit]Ethnologue reports the following locations for Rengma.
- Tseminyü District, west-central Nagaland
- 15 villages of Karbi Anglong District, Assam
- Manipur
References
[edit]- ^ Rengma at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "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.