Chang language

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Chang
Mochungrr
/tɕáŋŋɤ̀ɣ/ [1]
Native to India
Ethnicity Chang Naga
Native speakers
62,000 (2001 census) [2]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbc
Glottolog chan1313

Chang (Changyanguh), or Mochungrr, [3] is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeastern India. It is spoken in 36 villages of Tuensang District in east-central Nagaland (Ethnologue). Ethnologue reports that the Tuensang village dialect is the central speech variety that is intelligible to all Chang speakers.

References

  1. ↑ Jacques, Guillaume (2007). "A shared suppletive pattern in the pronominal systems of Chang Naga and Southern Qiang". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 36 (1): 61–78. doi:10.1163/19606028-90000161.
  2. ↑ Chang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Chang Naga language". Open Language Archives. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
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