Purum language explained

Purum
States:India
Region:Manipur
Ethnicity:Purum people
Speakers:500
Date:2001 census
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:Kuki-Chin-Naga
Fam4:Southern Naga
Iso3:pub
Glotto:puru1266
Map2:Lang Status 20-CR.svg

Purum (Purum Naga) is a Southern Naga language of India. Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)[1] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam.The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[2]

Geographical distribution

Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur (Ethnologue).

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.