Monsang language

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Monsang
Siirti
Native to India
Region Manipur
Ethnicity Monsang people
Native speakers
2,000 (2015) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nmh
Glottolog mons1234

Monsang (Monsang, Monshang; autonym: Si:rti [1] ) is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily, [2] spoken in the Northeast of India. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [3]

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Distribution

Monsang is spoken in Chandel subdivision, Chandel district, Manipur, in the 6 villages of Liwachangning, Changnhe, Liwa Khullen (Meeleen), Liwa Sarei, Japhou, and Monsang Pantha (Pentha Khuwpuw). [4]

Phonology

Unlike the more conservative Kuki-Chin languages spoken to the south such as Mizo, Monsang has many innovative phonological and morphological features. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN   9781315399492
  3. ↑ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue . Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  4. ↑ Monsang, Sh. Francis; Veikho, Sahiinii Lemaina. 2018. Sound System of Monsang. Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 17(2): 77–116. doi : 10.5070/H917237811
  5. ↑ Konnerth, Linda. 2018. The historical phonology of Monsang (Northwestern South-Central/“Kuki-Chin”): A case of reduction in phonological complexity. Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 17(1): 19-49.


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