Chang language

Chang
Mochungrr
Native to India
Ethnicity Chang Naga
Native speakers
62,000 (2001 census)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbc
Glottolog chan1313[2]

Chang (Changyanguh), or Mochungrr,[3] is a Naga language of northeastern India. It is spoken in 36 villages of Tuensang District in east-central Nagaland (Ethnologue). Ethnologue reports that the Tuensang village dialect is the central speech variety that is intelligible to all Chang speakers.

References

  1. Chang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chang Naga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "OLAC resources in and about the Chang Naga language". Open Language Archives. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
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