Moyon language

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Moyon
Native to India
Region Nagaland, Manipur
Ethnicity Moyon people
Native speakers
(3,700 cited 2001) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nmo
Glottolog moyo1238

Moyon is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily, [2] [3] spoken by the Moyon people in Manipur, India and in Burma. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [4]

A Quadrilingual Moyon-Manipuri-English-Nagamese book titled "A Guide Book to Moyon Language", was published by the Moyon Literature Society in 2023. [5]

Geographical distribution

Moyon is spoken in the following locations ( Ethnologue ).

References

  1. ↑ Moyon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  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. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue . Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "'A guide to Moyon language' released". Imphal Free Press . Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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