| Rongmei | |
|---|---|
| Songbu | |
| Ruanglat, "Ruangmei" | |
 Rongmei written inMeitei script | |
| Region | Assam,Manipur andNagaland |
| Ethnicity | Rongmei Naga |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 350,580[citation needed]) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nbu |
| Glottolog | rong1266 |
| ELP | Rongmei Naga |
Rongmei is aSino-Tibetan language spoken by theRongmei Naga community in Northeast India.[1] It has been calledSongbu and is close toZeme andLiangmai. The language has been nomenclatured as "Ruangmei" and studied as a First Language paper from class I to X of Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.[2] Ruangmei is studied as a Minor Indian Language (MIL) in Class XI & XII of Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (COHSEM).[3]
Rongmei is mostly spoken in the three states ofAssam,Manipur andNagaland.[4]
It is the most spoken language inTamenglong district andNoney district; and the second most spoken language inImphal West district andBishnupur district of Manipur.[5]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | lateral | l | ||||
| central | w | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
A lower-mid elongated sound [ɐː] also occurs only in word-medial positions.[6]
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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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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| Proto-languages | |||||
Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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