| Rongmei | |
| Also Known As: | Songbu |
| Nativename: | Ruanglat, "Ruangmei" |
| Imagescale: | 0.5 |
| Region: | Assam, Manipur and Nagaland |
| Ethnicity: | Rongmei Naga |
| Speakers: | 350,580 |
| Date: | no date |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
| Fam3: | Central Tibeto-Burman (?) |
| Fam4: | Kuki-Chin-Naga |
| Fam5: | Zemeic |
| Iso3: | nbu |
| Glotto: | rong1266 |
| Glottorefname: | Rongmei Naga |
Rongmei is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Rongmei Naga community in Northeast India.[1] It has been called Songbu and is close to Zeme and Liangmai. The language has been nomenclatured as "Ruangmei" and studied as a First Language paper from class I to X of Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.[2] Ruangmei is studied as a Minor Indian Language (MIL) in Class XI & XII of Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (COHSEM).[3]
Rongmei is mostly spoken in the three states of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland.[4]
It is the most spoken language in Tamenglong district and Noney district; and the second most spoken language in Imphal West district and Bishnupur district of Manipur.[5]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | lateral | l | ||||
| central | w | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | ||
| Mid | e | ə | o | |
| Open | a |