Kaachai-Padāng | |
States: | India |
Region: | Manipur |
Ethnicity: | Tangkhul Naga |
Speakers: | 3,000 in Kachai village |
Date: | 2003 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
Fam3: | Central Tibeto-Burman (?) |
Fam4: | Kuki-Chin–Naga |
Fam5: | Tangkhul–Maring |
Fam6: | Tangkhulic |
Glotto: | phad1238 |
Glottorefname: | Phadang |
Glottofoot: | none |
The language of the neighboring villages of Kaachai and Padāng in Manipur, India, constitute a Tangkhulic language. It is spoken by about 3,000 people in Kachai village, west-central Ukhrul District. Phadāng is only attested from 1859.[1]