Miri or Mising, also known as Plains Miri, is a Tani language spoken by the Mising people. There are 629,954 speakers (as per Census of India, 2011), who inhabit mostly the Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat, Tinsukia districts of Assam and also some parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The primary literary body of Mising is known as ' Mising Agom Kébang (Mising Language Society)'. The Mising, Padam and

Minyong The Minyong are a sub-group of the Adi people, a tribal people living in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The Minyong are found in East Siang, Siang and West Siang West Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is an administrative district in the stat ...

speak dialects of the same language.

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''Ethnologue'' gives the following locations for Mising speakers. The Hill Miri live in Arunachal Pradesh, while the Plains Miri live in Assam. * Assam: North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli,Charaideu,Bishwanath,Golaghat, and Tinsukia districts * Arunachal Pradesh **Districts of East Siang, Lower Dibang valley and Lohit. Also on both sides of Kamla river in Ziro subdivision, Lower Subansiri district **Daporizo subdivision, Upper Subansiri district

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External links

Mising Language course
(Agom, Gomlam, Gompir etc.)
misingagomkebang.org
Mising Agom Kebang (Mising Sahitya Sabha) website

Mising Autonomous Council
wethemising.wordpress.com
Article on Mising language *Mark Post
A documentation of the Upper Belt variety of Minyong (Adi), Arunachal Pradesh, North East India
Endangered Languages Archive. {{Languages of Northeast India Tani languages Languages of Assam Endangered languages of India Languages of Arunachal Pradesh

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