Moyon language explained

Moyon
Also Known As:	Moyon Naga
States:	India
Region:	Nagaland, Manipur
Ethnicity:	Moyon people
Speakers:	3,700
Date:	2001
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Southern Naga^[1]
Iso3:	nmo
Glotto:	moyo1238
Glottorefname:	Moyon

Moyon is a Sino-Tibetan language of Southern Naga linguistic sub branch. It is spoken by the Moyon peoples in Manipur, India and in Burma.The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[2]

A Quadrilingual Moyon-Manipuri-English-Nagamese book titled "A Guide Book to Moyon Language", was published by the Moyon Literature Society in 2023.^[3]

Classification

Scott DeLancey (2015)^[4] classifies Moyon as a "Northwest Kuki-Chin" language.

Geographical distribution

Moyon is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).

• Chandel district, Manipur: 14 villages including Moyon Khullen, Khongjom, Mitong, Komlathabi, Penaching, and Heigru Tampak
• Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)

Notes and References

1. DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015
2. Web site: Meitei Ethnologue . 2023-05-03 . . en.
3. Web site: ‘A guide to Moyon language’ released . 2023-11-20 . . en.
4. DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental 44(2):122-149. December 2015.