Inpui language

Inpui
Kabui
Inpui chong
Inpui written in Meitei script
Native toIndia
RegionManipur, Nagaland, Assam
EthnicityInpui Naga
Native speakers
29,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nkf
Glottologinpu1234
ELPPuiron

Inpui or Puiron is a Naga language spoken in different villages of Senapati district, Tamenglong district, Noney District, and Imphal district in Manipur, and in some areas in Nagaland, India. Speakers of Inpui and Rongmei are subsumed under single ethnic group Kabui. But the two major ethnic groups have different languages and identity. Even though they are considered to be cognate ethnic group. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[2]

  1. ^ Inpui at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 3 May 2023.