Rengma language should not be confused with Northern Rengma language.
Rengma | |
Nativename: | Southern Rengma |
States: | India |
Region: | Nagaland |
Ethnicity: | Rengma Naga |
Speakers: | 21,000 |
Date: | 1997 |
Ref: | e25 |
Speakers2: | 65,300 total Rengma (2011 census) |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Angami–Pochuri |
Iso3: | nre |
Glotto: | sout2732 |
Glottorefname: | Southern Rengma Naga |
Rengma, or Southern Rengma, is an Angami–Pochuri language spoken in Nagaland, India.[1]
Alternate names and dialect names of Rengma include Injang, Moiyui, Mon, Mozhumi, Nzong, Nzonyu, Rengma, Rengma Naga, Southern Rengma, Unza and Western Rengma (Ethnologue).
Ethnologue reports the following dialects of Rengma.
Tseminyu is the principal dialect main center. Southern Rengma and Northern Rengma are reportedly inherently unintelligible.
Ethnologue reports the following locations for Rengma.