Mongsen Ao language

Mongsen Ao
Mongsen Ao
Native to	India
Region	Nagaland
Ethnicity	Ao Naga
Native speakers	104,003 (2011 census)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Central Naga Ao languages Ao language Mongsen Ao; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mong1332

Mongsen Ao is a member of the Ao languages, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, predominantly spoken in central Mokokchung district of Nagaland, northeast India. Its speakers see the language as one of two varieties of a greater "Ao language," along with the prestige variety Chungli Ao.

A chapter in the anthropological monograph of Mills (1926) provides a grammatical sketch of the variety of Mongsen Ao spoken in Longjang village. Coupe (2003) is one of the few acoustic studies published on a Kuki-Chin-Naga language (only three exist). Coupe (2007) is a reference grammar of the language, based on a revision of his PhD dissertation (Coupe 2004).

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