Kharam language
Kharam | |
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![]() Transliteration of "Kharam" in Meitei script | |
Native to | India |
Region | Manipur |
Ethnicity | Kharam people |
Native speakers | 1,400 (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kfw |
Glottolog | khar1288 Kharam Naga |
Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)[2] classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[3]
Geographical distribution
[edit]Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of Manipur (Ethnologue).
- Senapati district: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages
- Chandel district: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages
References
[edit]- ^ Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.