Hmar language
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| Hmar | ||
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| Hmar | ||
| Pronunciation | /m̥a/ | |
| Spoken in | Mizoram, Manipur, and Assam, India; Myanmar | |
| Region | Southeast Asia | |
| Total speakers | India: 83,404 (Census of India, 2001) | |
| Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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| Writing system | Latin alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | none, recognized as a minority language in Assam, Manipur and Mizoram | |
| Regulated by | No official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | hmr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Hmar language belongs to the Kuki-Chin-Naga group of Tibeto-Burman stock of the great Sino-Tibetan family of languages. The speakers of the language are also known as Hmar.
Hmar speakers are scattered over a vast area in Mizoram, Manipur, NC Hills and Cachar districts of Assam state, India. There is no homegenous settlement of Hmar speakers alone.
Hmar is a recognised language in the School curriculum of Assam, Manipur and Mizoram, and also recently recognised as one of the Modern Indian Language (MIL) at Manipur University. Board of Secondary Education, Assam has also included Hmar as an MIL in its matriculation syllabus from 2005.
According to the official 2001 Census of India, there are 83,404 Hmar speakers.
[edit] External links
- Hmar Rûnpui : Hmar Social Networking Visit Site
- Manipur Online The Unresolved Issues of the Hmar
- Hmar.net Infobase of the indigenous Hmar people
- Sinlung News [1]
- Entry for Hmar at Rosetta Project
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