Tangkhul Naga

Facts

  • Language: Tangkhul Naga
  • Alternate names: Tangkhul, Tagkhul, Thangkhulm, Champhung, Luhuppa, Luppa, Somra, Naga (Tangkhul), Kupome, Luhupa, Central Luhupa, Northern Luhupa, Tangkul, TÅ›amphung
  • Language code: nmf
  • Language family: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Sal, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Tangkhul (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 58,167
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    A Scheduled Tribe. The most educated group of Manipur. Christian.

    Though usually treated as a single language, Tangkhul Naga is a dialect continuum. Several of these dialects are not mutually intelligible.