Anāl language

{{short description|Sino-Tibetan language}}

{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Anāl

| states = India and Myanmar

| region = Southeast Manipur

| ethnicity = Anāl Naga

| image = "Anāl" written in Meitei script.jpg

| imagescale = 0.4

| imagecaption = Anāl written in Meitei script

| speakers = {{sigfig|13900|2}}

| date = 2001 census

| ref = e18

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman

| fam3 = Central Tibeto-Burman (?)

| fam4 = Kuki-Chin–Naga

| fam5 = Kuki-Chin

| dia1 = Langet

| script =

• Latin script
• Meitei script (to lesser extent)

| iso3 = anm

| glotto = anal1239

| glottorefname = Anal

| linglist = qfs

| lingname = Langet

}}

Anāl, also known as Namfau after the two principal villages it is spoken in, is a Northern Kukish language, part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken by the Anal people in India and a dwindling number in Burma. It had 13,900 speakers in India according to the 2001 census, and 50 in Burma in 2010. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |website=Ethnologue |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724203234/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |archive-date=24 July 2019 |language=en}}

The Department of Language Planning and Implementation of the Government of Manipur offers a sum of {{INRConvert|5000|year=2013}}, to every individual who learns Anal language, under certain terms and conditions.{{Cite web |title=Applications invited for local language training programme |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/manipur/applications-invited-for-local-language-training-programme |website=Imphal Free Press |language=en}}

Anal is also written in the Latin script,{{harvnb|Bareh|2007|p=120}} with a literacy rate of about 74%.

Langet may be a dialect, though its position within Kukish is uncertain (Shafer 1955:106).{{update after|2012|9|27}}