Mongsen Ao | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Nagaland |
Ethnicity | Ao Naga |
Native speakers | 104,003 (2011 census)[1][2] |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | mong1332 |
Mongsen Ao is a member of the Ao languages, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, predominantly spoken in central Mokokchung district of Nagaland, northeast India. Its speakers see the language as one of two varieties of a greater "Ao language," along with the prestige variety Chungli Ao.[2]
A chapter in the anthropological monograph of Mills (1926) provides a grammatical sketch of the variety of Mongsen Ao spoken in Longjang village. Coupe (2003) is one of the few acoustic studies published on a Kuki-Chin-Naga language (only three exist). Coupe (2007) is a reference grammar of the language, based on a revision of his PhD dissertation (Coupe 2004).