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| Inpui | |
|---|---|
| Kabui, Puiron | |
| Inpui chong | |
 Inpui written inMeitei script | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur,Nagaland,Assam |
| Ethnicity | Inpui Naga |
Native speakers | 29,000 (2001 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nkf |
05k Puiron | |
1ae Poeron | |
| Glottolog | inpu1234 |
| ELP | Puiron |
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Inpui orPuiron is aNaga language spoken in different villages ofSenapati district,Tamenglong district, Noney District, andImphal district inManipur, and in some areas in Nagaland, India. Speakers of Inpui andRongmei are subsumed under single ethnic groupKabui. But the two majorethnic groups have different languages and identity. Even though they are considered to be cognate ethnic group.The speakers of this language useMeitei language as theirsecond language (L2) according to theEthnologue.[2]
Kabui was originally called Inpui, but Rongmei in Imphal valley also used the name Kabui. Rongmei in the hills did not use the name.
Inpui chong and Rongmei are sometimes considered to be the same language, despite being mutually unintelligible and only 68% lexically similar. The Inpui-speaking people are mainly concentrated in the Tamenglong district of Manipur, especially in the Haochong areas, which is a cluster of about 10 villages.
Inpui speakers also reside in Tamenglong headquarters, Noney areas, Makuilongdi and Senapati headquarters in Senapati district and three Inpui villages namely Changangei, Yurembam and Tamphagei in Imphal valley. The Inpui-speaking people are also found in the Peren and Dimapur district of Nagaland. The most similar dialect with Inpui among the ethnic groups living in Manipur is the Kom dialect.[3]
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