Khamti language
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| Khamti | |
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| Native to | 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 (Thai:(ภาษาไทคำตี่, pasa tai kham dtee) is spoken in Sagaing, Myanmar and Assam, India (in the Dikrong Valley, Narayanpur, and north bank of the Brahmaputra) by the Khamti people. In modern Thai, which it has mutual intelligibility, khamti means "open words" or "open speech".
There are some 30 Khamti-speaking villages in Arunachal Pradesh, and 7 in Assam.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ 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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