Kharam language explained

Kharam
States:	India
Region:	Manipur
Ethnicity:	Kharam people
Speakers:	1,400
Date:	2000
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	(Tibeto-Burman)
Fam3:	Kuki-Chin-Naga
Fam4:	Southern Naga
Iso3:	kfw
Glotto:	khar1288
Glottoname:	Kharam Naga

Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)^[1] 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.The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[2]

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

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Meitei Ethnologue . 2023-05-03 . . en.