Chang language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Chang

|altname=Mochungrr

|nativename={{IPA|/tɕáŋ ŋɤ̀ɣ/}}{{cite journal | last=Jacques | first=Guillaume | title=A shared suppletive pattern in the pronominal systems of Chang Naga and Southern Qiang | journal=Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale | volume=36 | issue=1 | date=2007 | pages=61–78| doi=10.1163/19606028-90000161 | url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00200873 }}

|states=India

|ethnicity=Chang Naga

|speakers={{sigfig|62400|2}}

|date=2001 census

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Sal

|fam4=Konyak

|fam5=Konyak–Chang

|iso3=nbc

|glotto=chan1313

|glottorefname=Chang Naga

}}

Chang (Changyanguh), or Mochungrr,{{cite web|url=http://www.language-archives.org/language/nbc|title=OLAC resources in and about the Chang Naga language|publisher=Open Language Archives|access-date=15 October 2011}} is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeastern India. It is spoken in 36 villages of Tuensang District in east-central Nagaland (Ethnologue). Ethnologue reports that the Tuensang village dialect is the central speech variety that is intelligible to all Chang speakers.