Purum language

Purum
Purum
	Purum written in Meitei script
Native to	India
Region	Manipur
Ethnicity	Purum people
Native speakers	500 (2001 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin-Naga Southern Naga Purum; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	puz
Glottolog	puru1266

Purum (Purum Naga) is a Southern Naga language of India. Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups. Peterson (2017) classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.

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