Moyon language

{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language}}

{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}

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

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

{{Infobox language

| name = Moyon

| altname = Moyon Naga

| nativename =

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

| imagecaption = "Moyon" written in Meitei script

| states = India

| region = Nagaland, Manipur

| ethnicity = Moyon people

| speakers = 3,700

| date = 2001

| ref = e18

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| fam2 = Tibeto-Burman

| fam3 = Southern NagaDeLancey, 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

| iso3 = nmo

| glotto = moyo1238

| glottorefname = Moyon

}}

Moyon is a Sino-Tibetan language of Southern Naga linguistic sub branch. It is spoken by the Moyon peoples in Manipur, India and in Burma.

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}}

A Quadrilingual Moyon-Manipuri-English-Nagamese book titled "A Guide Book to Moyon Language", was published by the Moyon Literature Society in 2023.{{Cite web |title=‘A guide to Moyon language’ released |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/books/a-guide-to-moyon-language-released |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Imphal Free Press |language=en}}