Leinong Naga, or Htang Ngan, is a
Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ...
language spoken in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. Leinong Naga is spoken in about 25 villages of
Lahe Township
Lahe Township ( my, လဟယ်မြို့နယ်) is a township located within the Naga Self-Administered Zone of Sagaing Division, Myanmar. The principal town is Lahe.
Towns and villages
Languages
The following languages are spoken ...
and northwestern
Hkamti Township
Hkamti Township or Khamti Township ( my, ခန္တီးမြို့နယ်) is a township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of Burma (Myanmar). ,
Naga Self-Administered Zone
The Naga Self-Administered Zone ( my, နာဂကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဒေသ ), is a self-administered zone in the Naga Hills area of Sagaing Region of Myanmar. Its administrative seat is ...
(formerly administered as part of
Hkamti District
Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes Naga Hills District) is a district in northern Sagaing Division of Burma (Myanmar). Its administrative center is the town of Singkaling Hkamti. Townships
The district consists of the two townships ...
),
Sagaing Division
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lo ...
, Myanmar (''
Ethnologue''). Dialects are Yao Dyang (Northern Leinong, Zau Dyang) and Southern Leinong (''Ethnologue'').
References
Sources
*Wayesha, Ahsi James. 2010.
A phonological description of Leinong Naga'. M.A. dissertation. Chiang Mai: Payap University.
Sal languages
Languages of Myanmar
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