| Purum | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Ethnicity | Purum people |
Native speakers | 500 (2001 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pub |
| Glottolog | puru1266 |
 Purum is classified as Critically Endangered language by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger[2] | |
Purum is aKuki-Chin language, belonging to theNorthwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily.[3]Speakers consider themselves to be ethnicNaga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017)[4] classifies Purum as part of theNorthwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. AccordingEthnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility withKharam.The speakers of this language useMeitei language as theirsecond language (L2) according to theEthnologue.[5]
Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages ofSenapati district,Manipur (Ethnologue).
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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