Maram language
| Maram | |
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| Maram Naga | |
 Maram written in Meitei script | |
| Region | Manipur, Assam |
| Ethnicity | Maram people |
Native speakers | 33,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nma |
| Glottolog | mara1379 |
| ELP | Maram Naga |
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Maram is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[2]
Locations
Ethnologue reports that Maram is spoken in the following locations.
- Senapati district, northern Manipur: 5 villages near Senapati, and 26 villages near Maram
- Imphal district, Manipur
- Assam
Dialects
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Maram:
- Willong Circle
- Maram Khullen Circle
- T. Khullen
- Ngatan
References
- ^ Maram at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Meitei | Ethnologue". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast 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. | |||||