Purum language

Purum
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Purum people
Native speakers	500 (2001 census) [1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Northwestern Purum
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pub
Glottolog	puru1266
Purum is classified as Critically Endangered language by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2]

Purum is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily. ^[3] Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017) ^[4] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. ^[5]

Geographical distribution

Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur ( Ethnologue ).

References

1. Purum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexander, eds. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (PDF) (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO. pp. 43–47. ISBN   978-92-3-104096-2. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue . Retrieved 2023-05-03.