Mzieme language
Mzieme is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India. It has been called Northern Zeme due to its lack of official recognition, but is not particularly close to Zeme.
Mzieme | |
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Northern Zeme | |
Native to | India |
Region | Nagaland |
Ethnicity | Zeme Naga |
Native speakers | 29,000 (1997)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nme |
Glottolog | mzie1235 [2] |
Mzieme is spoken to the northeast of Zeme in Peren district, southeastern Nagaland, as well as in Senapati district, Manipur.
References
- Mzieme at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mzieme Naga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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