Purum language
| Purum | |
|---|---|
 Purum written in Meitei script | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Purum people |
Native speakers | 500 (2001 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | puz |
| Glottolog | puru1266 |
Purum (Purum Naga) is a Southern Naga language of India. Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)[2] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam.
Geographical distribution
Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur (Ethnologue).
References
- ^ Purum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.
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