Lainong Naga, or Htang Ngan, 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 in
Burma
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. Lainong Naga is spoken in about 32 villages of
Lahe Township and northwestern
Hkamti Township
Hkamti Township ( ) is the only township of Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. ,
Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly administered as part of
Hkamti District
Hkamti District or Khamti District (sometimes formerly Naga Hills District) is a district in northern Sagaing Region of Myanmar (Burma). Its administrative center is the town of Hkamti.
Townships
The District only contains one township - Hkamt ...
),
Sagaing Division
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, Myanmar (''
Ethnologue
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''). Dialects are Zëūdiāng.
The Lainong Naga dialects share 89%–100%
lexical similarity
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. ...
.
Lainong Naga is 69%–75% lexically similar with
Ponyo-Gongwang Naga, 62%–67% with
Khiamniungan Naga, and 37%–41% with Lao variety of
Konyak Naga.
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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