Mru language#Script

Mru forms the Mruic language branch with Hkongso and Anu, which are spoken in Paletwa Township, Chin State, Myanmar. The position of Mruic with Sino-Tibetan is unclear.

File:Map of Mru people in Bandarban.png in bandarban district]]The Mros live in forest areas of Lama Upazila, Ruma Upazila, Alikadam Upazila, and Thanchi Upazila near Chimbuk Mountain of Bandarban District, Bangladesh (Rashel 2009). In Myanmar, they also live in Buthidaung Township and Ponnagyun Township in Sittwe District (Akiab), Rakhine State.

Ethnologue (22nd edition) lists 3 main dialects as Anok, Dowpreng (Dopreng), and Sungma (Tshungma), as well as the 2 minor dialects of Domrong and Rumma.

• Anok: largest and central
• Tshungma: in the north
• Domrong: in the lowlands north of the Matamuri
• Dopreng: in far south and into Arakan
• Rumma: in far south and into Arakan

There are five Mru dialects according to Ebersole (1996).

• Anawk
• Süngma
• Dopreng
• Tamsa
• Rengmitsa

There are five major Mro clans (Rashel 2009).

• Dengua
• Premsang
• Kongloi
• Maizer
• Ganaroo Gnar

Rashel (2009) also lists another classification scheme which lists ten Mro clans.

• Yarua (subdivisions below)
• Khatpo
• Chimlung
• Zongnow
• Sangkan
• Chawla
• Ngaringcha
• Tang
• Deng
• Kough
• Tam-tu-chah
• Kanbak
• Prenju
• Naichah
• Yomore
• Rum/Rumthu

Unlike the Kuki-Chin languages, Mru has SVO (subject-verb-object) word order (Ebersole 1996).

/s/ can also be heard as [ʃ].{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Nicholas J. |title=Directionals in Mru |publisher=Dartmouth College |year=2008}}

{{Cite book |last=Namkung |first=Ju |title=Mru |publisher=Berkeley: Center for Southeast Asia Studies |year=1996 |location=Phonological Inventories of Tibeto-Burman Languages. (STEDT Monograph Series, 3.) |pages=268}}

Rashel (2009:159) lists the following Mro numerals.

1. lok
2. pre
3. sum
4. tle
5. tnga
6. trok
7. rinit
8. riyat
9. tako
10. homod

{{Main|Mru script}}

{{Infobox writing system

| name = Mru

| altname = Mro, Krama

| type = alphabet

| time = 1980s — present

| languages = Mru

| unicode = [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A40.pdf U+16A40–U+16A6F] | iso15924 = Mroo

| note = none

}}

The Mru script is an indigenous, messianic script: In the 1980s Menlay Murang (also known as Manley Mro) created the religion of Khrama (or Crama) and with it a new script for the Mru language.{{cite web|last=Hosken|first=Martin|last2=Everson|first2=Michael|author-link2=Michael Everson|date=24 March 2009|title=N3589R: Proposal for encoding the Mro script in the SMP of the UCS|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3589.pdf|access-date=2 August 2014}}{{cite journal | last = Zaman | first = Mustafa | title = Mother Tongue at Stake | journal = Star Weekend Magazine | volume = 5 | issue = 83 | publisher = The Daily Star | date = 24 February 2006}}

The script is written from left to right and has its own set of digits. It does not use tone marks.

The Mru language is written in both the Latin and Mru scripts.

{{Main|Mro (Unicode block)}}

The Mru alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in June, 2014 with the release of version 7.0.

The Unicode block for the Mru script, called Mro, is U+16A40–U+16A6F:

{{Unicode chart Mro}}

• Mru word list (Wiktionary)

{{reflist}}

• Ebersole, Harold. 1996. The Mru Language: A preliminary grammatical sketch. Ms.
• Peterson, David A., [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722070911/http://ic.payap.ac.th/sino-tibetan-conference/Conference%20Handbook.pdf?v=1256612245 "Where does Mru fit into Tibeto-Burman?"], The 42nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 42), November 2009, Payap University, Chiangmai, Thailand. Cf. p. 14.
• Rashel, Md Mostafa (2009). "[http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/DUJL/article/download/4149/3443 Morphosyntactic Analysis of Mro Language]." Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics, Vol, 2, No, 3, February 2009, 141–160.

• Clifton, John M. 2009. [http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5034 "Orthography development as an ongoing collaborative process: lessons from Bangladesh"]. 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC)
• [http://stedt.berkeley.edu/~stedt-cgi/rootcanal.pl/gnis?lexicon.lgid=1122 Mru word list (Luce 1985)]
• [http://stedt.berkeley.edu/~stedt-cgi/rootcanal.pl/gnis?lexicon.lgid=1123 Mru word list (Matisoff 1987)]
• https://aksharamukha.appspot.com/describe/Mro Many languages able translate to Mro language.
• https://keymanweb.com/?_ga=2.244017925.1829076129.1590300131-764973306.1590300131 Used to example for Mro keyboard font.

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