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Inpui | |
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Kabui | |
Inpui chong | |
![]() Inpui written in Meitei script | |
Native to | India |
Region | Manipur, Nagaland, Assam |
Ethnicity | Inpui Naga |
Native speakers | 29,000 (2001 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nkf |
Glottolog | (insufficiently attested or not a distinct language)inpu1234 |
ELP | Puiron |
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]