Anal (language)

Anal
Spoken in	India Myanmar
speaker	23,000 (UNESCO estimate)
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan languages Tibeto Burmese Mizo-Kuki-Chin North Mizo Kuki Chin Lamkang group Anal
Language codes
ISO 639-3	note

Anal is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by 23,000 people of the Naga ethnic group in India and Myanmar .

distribution

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Anal is spoken in the Indian state of Manipur , Myanmar's Sagaing Division, and possibly Bangladesh . According to the Indian census, 13,900 of the estimated 23,000 native speakers live in India. UNESCO classifies anal as a "potentially endangered" language.

description

Anal is an SOV language and is written using the Latin script . 74% of speakers in India are literate . Anal has the dialects Mulsom, Laizo, Lai, Hakha Lai, and Zahao. The closest similar language is Lamkang .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anal ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - MultiTree on Anal (English). Accessed February 24, 2013
2. ↑ Anal - Ethnologue.com About Anal. Accessed February 24, 2013