Chirr is a
Sino-Tibetan
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 ...
language spoken by the
Chirr Naga
The Chirr people, are a Naga ethnic group that are mostly native to Northeast Indian state of Nagaland
Nagaland () is a States and union territories of India, state in the northeast India, north-eastern region of India. It is bordered by th ...
(Yimkhiung) community in northeast India. It is related to other
Yimkhiungrü language
Yimkhiungrü is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in northeast India by the Yimkhiung Naga people. It is spoken between Namchik and Patkoi in Shamator District, Nagaland, India. Yimkhiungrü language has more than 100,000 speakers and is used ...
and is sometimes considered as a dialect of the
Yimkhiung Naga
The Yimkhiungs (formerly misspelled as Yimchunger) are a Naga ethnic group inhabiting the territories of Shamator and Kiphire District in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland and western areas of Myanmar.
Etymology
The word Yimkhiung mean ...
s.
References
{{Languages of Northeast India
Naga people
Languages of Nagaland
Ao languages