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