Zeme | |
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Zeliang | |
"Zeliang" written in Meitei script | |
Region | Assam, Manipur, Nagaland. |
Ethnicity | Zeme Naga |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2011 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nzm |
Glottolog | zeme1240 |
ELP | Zeme Naga |
Zeme (also called Empeo, Jeme, Kacha and Zemi[1]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeastern India. It is one of the dialects spoken by the Zeme Naga, the other being Mzieme.
Zeme (dialects: Paren, Njauna) is spoken in:[1]
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
Kuki-Chin |
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Naga |
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Meitei | |||||||||||||
Karbic |