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Tangkhul (Tangkhul Naga) is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Tangkhulic branch. It is spoken in 168 villages of Ukhrul district, Manipur, India, with speakers scattered in Nagaland and Tripura as well.

Tangkhul
Luhupa
Tangkhul written in Meitei script
Native toIndia
RegionManipur, Nagaland
EthnicityTangkhul Naga
Native speakers
670,000 including Khangoi (2019)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tangkhulic
    • Tangkhul
Dialects
  • Ukhrul
  • Kupome (Luhupa)
  • Phadang
Writing system
  • Latin script
  • Meitei script (to lesser extent)
Language codes
ISO 639-3nmf
Glottologtang1336
ELPTangkhul Naga

Within Ukhrul district, Manipur, Tangkhul is spoken in the villages of Hundung, Shiroi, Langdang, Lamlang Gate, Litan, Yangangpokpi, and other locations (Arokianathan 1995).

Tangkhul is not close to other Naga languages. It is a dialect continuum, in which speakers from neighboring villages may be able to understand each other, but a dialect farther north or south will be less easily understood, if at all. The lingua franca is the Hunphun (Ukhrul) dialect. Languages in the northern villages of Chingjaroi, Razai, Jessami and Soraphung have languages under the Angami–Pochuri group of languages.

The language dialect spoken by the people of Hunphun (the traditional name of Ukhrul) became the most common dialect among the Tangkhuls because the British set up their administration in Ukhrul. The American Baptist missionary Rev. William Pettigrew translated the Bible into the Hunphun dialect.


Phonology



Consonants


Bilabial Labio-
dental
Dental/
Alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
aspirated
Affricate
Fricative voiceless f s h
nasalized
voiced z
Nasal m n ŋ
Rhotic r
Lateral l
Approximant w ʋ j

Vowels


Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid e ə o
Open a

References


  1. Tangkhul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Ahum, Victor (1997). Tangkhul-Naga grammar: a study of word formation. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University.

На других языках


- [en] Tangkhul language

[fr] Tangkhul naga

Le tangkhul naga est une langue tibéto-birmane parlée dans l'État du Manipur, en Inde, par 125 000 Tangkhuls dans le district d'Ukhrul. La langue est aussi parlée dans les États de Tripura et du Nagaland.



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