Kharam language
{{Short description|Southern Naga language of Manipur, India}}
{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Kharam
|altname=
|nativename=
|image=Transliteration of "Kharam" in Meitei script.jpg
|imagecaption=Transliteration of "Kharam" in Meitei script
|states= India
|region=Manipur
|ethnicity=Kharam people
|speakers=1,400
|date=2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=(Tibeto-Burman)
|fam3=Kuki-Chin-Naga
|fam4=Southern Naga
|iso3=kfw
|glotto=khar1288
|glottoname=Kharam Naga
}}
Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017)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. 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.{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}
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
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}
{{Languages of Northeast India}}