Gangte language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language of India}}

{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Use Indian English|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Gangte

| region = India

| ethnicity = Gangte

| speakers = 16,500

| ref = e25

| date = 2011

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Kuki-Chin

| fam3 = Northeastern

| iso3 = gnb

| glotto = gang1266

| glottorefname = Gangte

}}

{{Incubator|code=gnb}}

Gangte is a Sino-Tibetan language of Kuki-Chin linguistic sub branch of Northeastern India. Its speakers primarily live in Manipur and the adjacent areas of Meghalaya and Assam. The language appears to be homogeneous with no known dialectal variation and exhibits at least partial mutual intelligibility with the other Chin-Kuki-Mizo dialects of the area including Thadou, Hmar, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom and Paite languages.{{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=Chungkham Yashawanta|title=The linguistic situation in Manipur|journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area|date=1995|volume=18|issue=1|pages=129–134|url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/singh1995linguistic.pdf|access-date=19 June 2014}}

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/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}