Lainong | |
Nativename: | Htangan |
States: | Burma |
Ethnicity: | Lainong Naga |
Speakers: | 22,617 (Sainyiu, Anui) |
Date: | 2022 |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Brahmaputran |
Fam3: | Konyak |
Fam4: | Konyak–Chang? (close to Ponyo) |
Iso3: | lzn |
Glotto: | lein1237 |
Glottorefname: | Leinong Naga |
Lainong Naga, or Htang Ngan, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma. Lainong Naga is spoken in about 32 villages of Lahe Township and northwestern Hkamti Township, Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly administered as part of Hkamti District), Sagaing Division, Myanmar (Ethnologue). Dialects are Zëūdiāng.
The Lainong Naga dialects share 89%–100% lexical similarity.[1] Lainong Naga is 69%–75% lexically similar with Ponyo-Gongwang Naga, 62%–67% with Khiamniungan Naga, and 37%–41% with Lao variety of Konyak Naga.