| Mising Language | |
| Nativename: | Plains Miri |
| Also Known As: | Mising–Padam–Minyong |
| Region: | Assam |
| Ethnicity: | Mising, Padam, Minyong |
| Speakers: | 629,954 |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tani |
| Fam3: | East Tani (Adi) |
| Dia1: | Padam |
| Dia2: | Minyong |
| Dia3: | Mising (Plains Miri) |
| Iso3: | mrg |
| Glotto: | misi1242 |
| Glottorefname: | Mising-Padam-Miri-Minyong |
Mising is a Tani language spoken by the Mising people. There are 629,954 speakers (as per Census of India, 2011), who inhabit mostly in the Dhemaji district, Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat, Tinsukia districts of Assam and also some parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The primary literary body of Mising is known as 'Mising Agom Kébang (Mising Language Society)'.
The Mising, Padam and Minyong speak dialects of the same language.
For the year 2011, for the first time, Sahitya Akademi, India’s highest literary body, recognised Mising eligible for receiving one of the six Bhasha Samman awards, for the category of the non-recognised languages, “that have developed sufficiently to merit the award”.[1]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː | |
| Mid | ɛ ɛː | ɜ ɜː | ɔ ɔː | |
| Open | a aː |
Ethnologue gives the following locations for Mising speakers. The Hill Miri live in Arunachal Pradesh, while the Plains Miri live in Assam.
North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli,Charaideu,Bishwanath,Golaghat, and Tinsukia districts