Inpui language

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Inpui
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 family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Zemeic Inpui
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]