Mao Naga People
The Mao people are a Tibeto-Burman major ethnic group constituting the Nagas inhabiting of Nagaland in Northeast India. Language George van Driem put the Mao language as one of the Angami-Pochuri languages, classified as an independent branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages. Mao forms part of the Naga genus of the Tibeto-Burman subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family. It displays a lot of variations in tonality, spelling and pronunciation among the Mao villages, suggesting a lack of interaction in the past. Many of the physical and metaphysical objects are referred to by different names by different villages. The degree of variation gets considerably widened with the neighbouring dialect groups such as the Poumai and the Angami, although the Maos can inter-communicate fully with many of the villages in the Poumai group and to a certain extent in the Angami group. In popular Mao folklore, there is a story transmitted through an old folksong which says that each of t ...
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