Leinong language explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2016 . Myanmar . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161010180533/http://www.ethnologue.com/country/MM/languages . 2016-10-10 . Ethnologue: Languages of the World.