Khamti language
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| Khamti | |
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| Spoken in | Myanmar, India |
| Ethnicity | Khamti people |
| Native speakers | 13,120 (2000)[1] (8,880 in India; 4,240 in Myanmar) |
| Language family |
Tai–Kadai
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kht |
The Khamti language is spoken in Sagaing, Myanmar and Assam, India (in the Dikrong Valley, Narayanpur, and north bank of the Brahmaputra).
There are some 30 Khamti-speaking villages in Arunachal Pradesh, and 7 in Assam.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kht
- ^ Morey, Stephen. 2005. The Tai languages of Assam: a grammar and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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