Kharam language

Kharam
Kharam
	Transliteration of "Kharam" in Meitei script
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Kharam people
Native speakers	1,400 (2000)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) Kuki-Chin-Naga Southern Naga Kharam; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfw
Glottolog	khar1288 Kharam Naga

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Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)^[2] classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[3]

Geographical distribution

Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of Manipur (Ethnologue).

Senapati district: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages
Chandel district: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages

References

^ Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ 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.
^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.

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[e18-1] Kharam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Peterson2017-2] 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.

[3] "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.

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