Kharam language

Kharam
Kharam
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Kharam people
Native speakers	1,400 (2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Naga languages Northwestern Kharam; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfw
Glottolog	khar1288 Kharam Naga

Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)^[2] classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum.

Geographical distribution[]

Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of Manipur (Ethnologue).

Senapati district: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages
Chandel district: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages

References[]

^ Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.

[e18-1] Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Peterson2017-2] 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.

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