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The Angami–Pochuri languages are a small family of
Sino-Tibetan languages Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 ...
spoken in southern
Nagaland Nagaland () is a States and union territories of India, state in the northeast India, north-eastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south, and the Naga Sel ...
and Northern Manipur of northeast
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. Conventionally classified as "Naga", they are not clearly related to other
Naga languages The Naga languages are a geographic and ethnic grouping of Tibeto-Burman, spoken mostly by Naga peoples. Konyak languages, Northern Naga languages do not fall within the group, in spite of being spoken by Naga groups; instead, these form part ...
, and are conservatively classified as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan, pending further research.


Languages

*Angami–Pochuri **Angami languages *** Angami *** Chokri (Chokri Chakhesang) *** Kuzhami *** Sopvoma (Mao) ***
Poula Poula is an Angami-Pochuri language that is predominantly spoken by the Poumai Naga people in Senapati district in Manipur and Phek district in Nagaland, India. The language of Chingjaroi is also closely related to Poula but is distinct. A ...
(Poumai) **Pochuri languages *** Pochuri *** Ntenyi (Northern Rengma) *** Rengma *** Sümi (Sema) Rengma–Simi might form a third branch according to Burling (2003).


References

* George van Driem (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill. Languages of Nagaland Languages of Manipur {{st-lang-stub