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| Anung | |
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| Anong, Nung | |
| Anung | |
| Pronunciation | [ɑ˧˩nuŋ˧˥] |
| Native to | China,Myanmar |
| Region | Fugong County |
| Ethnicity | (Southern) Anung ofNu nationality |
Native speakers | (450 cited 2000–2007)[1] 7,000 in China |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nun |
| Glottolog | nung1282 |
| ELP | Anong |
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Southern Anung (autonym:[ɑ˧˩nuŋ˧˥];Chinese:阿侬语;pinyin:Ānóngyǔ;[a]Lisu:Fuche Naw[citation needed]) is aSino-Tibetan language spoken by the Nung people inFugong County,China, andKachin State,Myanmar. The Anung language is closely related to theDerung andRawang languages. Most of the Anung speakers in China have shifted toLisu, although the speakers are classified asNu people. The Northern Anung people speak a dialect of Derung, which is also calledAnung ([ə˧˩nuŋ˥˧]), but is not the same Anung discussed in this article.
The Burmese and Chinese dialects of Anung have 87%lexical similarity with each other.[2] Anung has 73-76% lexical similarity withDerung, and 77-83% lexical similarity with the Matwang dialect ofRawang.[2]
BesidesChina andMyanmar, there are Anong people inThailand andIndia.
Anong is spoken by over 7,000 people inChina in the followingtownships.[3]
The majority of Anong speakers in Myanmar are found inKachin State, specificallyMyitkyina,Putao,Naungmun,Machanbaw,Tannai, and Khaunglangphu. There are over 5000 Naw (Anong) people in Kachin State, Myanmar.
In Myitkyina and Putao, there are literacy and language trainings every year.
Some Naw people live inShan State, but it is not clear whether they still use Anong or not. There are also many living in cities such asYangon,Khamti, andTaunggyi. Naw people are still mixed with theLisu population.
Nung has 43 single consonants.[47 listed below][3]
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||