Moyon language
| Moyon | |
|---|---|
| Moyon Naga | |
 "Moyon" written in Meitei script | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Nagaland, Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Moyon people |
Native speakers | 3,700 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nmo |
| Glottolog | moyo1238 |
Moyon is a Sino-Tibetan language of Southern Naga linguistic sub branch. It is spoken by the Moyon peoples in Manipur, India and in Burma. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[3]
A Quadrilingual Moyon-Manipuri-English-Nagamese book titled "A Guide Book to Moyon Language", was published by the Moyon Literature Society in 2023.[4]
Classification
[edit]Scott DeLancey (2015)[5] classifies Moyon as a "Southern Tibeto-Burman" language.
Geographical distribution
[edit]Moyon is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).
- Chandel district, Manipur: 14 villages including Moyon Khullen, Khongjom, Mitong, Komlathabi, Penaching, and Heigru Tampak
- Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)
References
[edit]- ^ Moyon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ "'A guide to Moyon language' released". Imphal Free Press. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental 44(2):122-149. December 2015. doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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