Purum language
| Purum | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Purum people |
Native speakers | (500 cited 2001 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pub |
| Glottolog | puru1266 |
 Purum is classified as Critically Endangered language by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] | |
Purum is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily.[3] Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)[4] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[5]
Geographical distribution
[edit]Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur (Ethnologue).
References
[edit]- ↑ Purum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexander, eds. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (PDF) (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022.
- ↑ Thurgood, Graham (2016), "Sino-Tibetan: Genetic and Areal Subgroups", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 22, ISBN 9781315399492
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
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