Maring language (India)
Appearance
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Maring | |
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Maring written in Meitei script | |
Region | Manipur |
Ethnicity | Maring |
Native speakers | 26,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Meitei script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nng |
Glottolog | mari1416 |
Maring and Uipo (exonym: Khoibu) are closely related Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Maring and Khoibu people in Manipur, India. Linguistically, they are closest to the Tangkhulic languages.
Maring is spoken in Laiching in the southeast of Chandel district, Manipur and the northern border mountainous region of Tengnoupal subdivision of that district (Ethnologue).
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | tʃ dʒ | k | |
Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | ||
Fricative | f | s | h | ||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Approximant | w | l r | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
Additionally, the following diphthongs have been observed: /ei/, /ai/, /au/, /ui/, /oi/.
References
[edit]- ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ a b Namkung, Ju (1996). Matisoff, James A. (ed.). "Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman Languages" (PDF). Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Monograph Series (3). University of California, Berkeley.