Moyon language

Moyon
Moyon
Moyon Naga
	"Moyon" written inMeitei script
Native to	India
Region	Nagaland,Manipur
Ethnicity	Moyon people
Native speakers	3,700 (2001)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Southern Naga Moyon; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmo
Glottolog	moyo1238

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Moyonis aSino-Tibetanlanguage ofSouthern Nagalinguistic sub branch. It is spoken by theMoyon peoplesinManipur,India and in Burma. The speakers of this language useMeitei languageas theirsecond language(L2) according to theEthnologue.^[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

Scott DeLancey(2015)^[5]classifies Moyon as a "SouthernTibeto-Burman"language.

Geographical distribution

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

^MoyonatEthnologue(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.Retrieved3 May2023.
^"'A guide to Moyon language' released ".Imphal Free Press.Retrieved20 November2023.
^DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)."Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental44(2):122-149. December 2015.doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02

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[e18-1] MoyonatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)

[DeLancey2015-2] 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

[3] "Meitei | Ethnologue".Ethnologue.Retrieved3 May2023.

[4] "'A guide to Moyon language' released ".Imphal Free Press.Retrieved20 November2023.

[5] DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)."Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental44(2):122-149. December 2015.doi:10.1163/19606028-00442p02

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