Wancho language

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Wancho language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Wancho people of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
belongsToBranch Sal branch (proposed)
continent Asia
country India
ethnicGroup Wancho people NERFINISHED
family Tibeto-Burman
glottologCode wanc1238
glottologName Wancho NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeClassification Northern Naga (Konyak) group NERFINISHED
hasDialects Lower Wancho
Middle Wancho NERFINISHED
Upper Wancho NERFINISHED
hasEndonym Wancho NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code nnp
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
hasScriptCreator Banwang Losu (Wancho script) NERFINISHED
hasSpeakerCommunity Wancho villages of Longding district
Wancho villages of Tirap district
isEndangered true
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
linguisticTypology tonal language
macroArea South Asia NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Konyak language NERFINISHED
Nocte language NERFINISHED
Tangsa language NERFINISHED
primaryLocation Arunachal Pradesh, India NERFINISHED
recognizedIn Arunachal Pradesh language planning
region Longding district NERFINISHED
Tirap district NERFINISHED
scriptCreationPeriod late 20th century
scriptType alphabet
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
India
northeastern India
status minority language
subfamily Konyak subgroup
Northern Naga languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Wancho people NERFINISHED
usedFor local education (limited)
religious texts (limited)
usedIn oral literature of Wancho people
traditional rituals of Wancho people
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Wancho script NERFINISHED

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