Konyak languages

Konyak
Konyak
Northern Naga
Geographic; distribution	India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Brahmaputran Konyak; ;
Subdivisions	Konyak–Chang; Tangsa–Nocte;
Language codes
Glottolog	kony1246

The Konyak languages, or Northern Naga, are a small family of half a dozen Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Naga people in southeastern Arunachal Pradesh and northeastern Nagaland states of northeastern India. They are not particularly closely related to other Naga languages. The best known Konyak languages are Konyak and Nocte.

The Konyak languages are some of the most neglected of the Sino-Tibetan family. No thorough research has been done apart from few books written during the colonial era.^{[citation needed]} There are a large number of divergent dialects, and villages even a few kilometers apart frequently have to rely on a separate common language.

Languages

Konyak–Chang: Konyak, Chang, Wancho, Phom, Khiamniungan–Ponyo–Htangan
Tangsa–Nocte: Tase (Tangsa), Nocte, Tutsa

Ethnologue 17 adds Makyan, which is not close to languages against which it has been tested.

Footnotes

References

French, Walter T. 1983. Northern Naga: A Tibeto-Burman mesolanguage. Ph.D. Dissertation, The City University of New York.
George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.