Monsang language

Monsang
Monsang
Siirti
	Monsang written in Meitei script
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Monsang people
Native speakers	2,000 (2015)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Monsang; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmh
Glottolog	mons1234

Monsang (Monsang, Monshang; autonym: Si:rti) is an unclassified Sino-Tibetan (possibly Sino-Tibetan) language spoken in the Northeast of India. Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015) classifies Monsang as a "Northwest Naga" language. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.

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