Sopvoma language

Mao
Sopvoma
Native to	India
Region	Nagaland, Manipur
Ethnicity	Mao Naga, Poumai Naga
Native speakers	130,000 (1997)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Angami–Pochuri Angami Mao
Dialects	Paomata
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: nbi – Mao pmx – Poumai
Glottolog	naga1397[2]

Sopvoma or Mao is an Angami–Pochuri language spoken primarily in Senapati district, northwestern Manipur and in Nagaland, India. It is similar to Angami. According to Ethnologue (2009), the Paomata dialect may be the same as Poumei (Poumai) Naga, which has received a separate ISO code.

See Mao Naga#Language for further details.

References

1. Mao at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Poumai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Naga Maoic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.