Monsang language

{{short description|Unclassified Sino-Tibetan (possibly Sino-Tibetan) language of Northeast India}}

{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Monsang

| nativename = Siirti

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

| imagecaption = Monsang written in Meitei script

| states = India

| region = Manipur

| ethnicity = Monsang people

| speakers = 2,000

| date = 2015

| ref = DeLancey, Scott; Krishna Boro; Linda Konnerth1; Amos Teo. 2015. Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Indo-Myanmar borderland. 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, 14 May 2015

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam1 = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman

| iso3 = nmh

| glotto = mons1234

| glottorefname = Monsang Naga

}}

Monsang (Monsang, Monshang; autonym: Si:rti) is an unclassified Sino-Tibetan (possibly Sino-Tibetan) language spoken in the Northeast of India. Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classifies Monsang as a "Northwest Naga" language.

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}}

Distribution

Monsang is spoken in Chandel subdivision, Chandel district, Manipur, in the 6 villages of Liwachangning, Changnhe, Liwa Khullen (Meeleen), Liwa Sarei, Japhou, and Monsang Pantha (Pentha Khuwpuw).Monsang, Sh. Francis; Veikho, Sahiinii Lemaina. 2018. [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14s5p12g Sound System of Monsang]. Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 17(2): 77–116. {{doi|10.5070/H917237811}}

Phonology

Unlike the more conservative Kuki-Chin languages spoken to the south such as Mizo, Monsang has many innovative phonological and morphological features.Konnerth, Linda. 2018. [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2jf5853n The historical phonology of Monsang (Northwestern South-Central/“Kuki-Chin”): A case of reduction in phonological complexity]. Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 17(1): 19-49.

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