Moyon language
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Moyon | |
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Moyon Naga | |
Native to | India |
Region | Nagaland, Manipur |
Ethnicity | Moyon Naga |
Native speakers | 3,700 (2001)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nmo |
Glottolog | moyo1238 |
Moyon is a Southern Naga language spoken by the Moyon Naga in Manipur, India and in Burma.
Classification[edit]
Scott DeLancey (2015)[3] classifies Moyon as a "Northwest Kuki-Chin" language.
Geographical distribution[edit]
Moyon is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
- Chandel district, Manipur: 14 villages including Moyon Khullen, Khongjom, Mitong, Komlathabi, Penaching, and Heigru Tampak
- Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)
References[edit]
- ^ Moyon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015
- ^ DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental 44(2):122-149. December 2015. doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02