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Wancho language#Orthography

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{{Infobox language

|name=Wancho

|nativename= {{Script|Wcho|𞋒𞋀𞋉𞋃𞋕}}
वांचो‎

|image=Shukla Wancho.svg

|imagecaption=The word 'Wancho' in Wancho script

|states=India

|ethnicity=

|speakers=59,154

|date=2011 census

|ref ={{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Sal

|fam4=Konyak

|fam5=Konyak–Chang

|iso3=nnp

|glotto=wanc1238

|glottorefname=Wancho Naga

|script=Wancho script
Devanagari

}}

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| special = Wancho text

| fix = Help:Multilingual support#Wancho

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Wancho (वांचो‎) is a Konyak language of north-eastern India. Wancho is spoken in 36 villages of southeastern Longding district, Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh, as well as in Assam and Nagaland (Ethnologue). Alternate names include

Banpara Naga, Joboka, Jokoba.

People

Wancho is spoken by the Wancho people who have a population of 56,866 according to a 2011 consensus, and mainly populate the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Although a minority, these inhabitants have a rich culture with rituals, ceremonial practices, religion, and various dialects of Wancho.“Wancho people.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 Feb. 2018

File:Shukla Wancho Ngun.svg (₹)]]

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Wancho.

  • Changnoi
  • Bor Muthun (Bor Mutonia)
  • Horu Muthun
  • Kulung Muthun (Mithan)

There is significant variation among the dialects spoken in the upper and lower regions.

Orthography

Wancho is generally written in either Devanagari or Latin script.

Between 2001 and 2012, teacher Banwang Losu devised a unique alphabetic Wancho script which is taught in some schools.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17067r-n4787r-wancho.pdf|title=L2/17-067R: Proposal to encode the Wancho script in the UCS|date=2017-07-26|first=Michael|last=Everson|author-link=Michael Everson}} In 2019, the script was officially published into Unicode 12.0.{{cite web |last1=Unicode |first1=Inc |title=Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 12.0 |url=http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html}}

References

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  • Robbins Burling & Mankai Wangsu (1998) [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/burling1998wancho.pdf "Wancho Phonology and word list"], Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 21.2.

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Category:Languages of Assam

Category:Languages of Arunachal Pradesh

Category:Languages of Nagaland

Category:Sal languages

Category:Endangered languages of India

Category:Languages written in Devanagari

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