Turung language

{{Short description|Jingpho dialect of Assam, India}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Turung

|states = India

|region = Assam

|ethnicity = Turung people

|speakers = 1,000

|date=2006

|ref={{Cite web |date=2022-12-20 |title=Speakers |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/contribution/704571 |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Sal

|fam3=Jingpho–Luish

|fam4=Jingpho

|script=Eastern Nagari, Latin script

|iso3=try

|glotto=turu1249

|glottorefname=Turung

}}

The Turung language is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language, closely related to Singpho, spoken in seven villages in central Assam. Many Turung people now speak Assamese.{{Cite web |title=Singpho Language of North East India (including Turung) {{!}} Endangered Languages Archive |url=https://www.elararchive.org/dk0006/ |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=www.elararchive.org}}

The total population of the ethnic group is over 30,000, and they primarily live in the Jorhat, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam.