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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language of India}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Gangte<br />
| image = "Gangte" written in Meitei script.jpg<br />
| imagecaption = ''Gangte'' written in [[Meitei script]] <br />
| region = [[India]]<br />
| ethnicity = [[Gangte people|Gangte]]<br />
| speakers = 16,500<br />
| ref = e25<br />
| date = 2011<br />
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan<br />
| fam2 = [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Northern Kuki-Chin languages|Northern]]<br />
| iso3 = gnb<br />
| glotto = gang1266<br />
| glottorefname = Gangte<br />
}}<br />
{{Incubator|code=gnb}}<br />
'''Gangte''' is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] language of [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]] linguistic sub branch of [[Northeastern India]]. Its speakers primarily live in [[Manipur]] and the adjacent areas of [[Meghalaya]] and [[Assam]]. The language appears to be homogeneous with no known dialectal variation and exhibits at least partial mutual intelligibility with the other [[Chin-Kuki-Mizo]] dialects of the area including [[Thadou language|Thadou]], [[Hmar language|Hmar]], [[Vaiphei language|Vaiphei]], [[Simte language|Simte]], [[Kom language (India)|Kom]] and [[Paite language|Paite]] languages.<ref name=Singh>{{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=Chungkham Yashawanta|title=The linguistic situation in Manipur|journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area|date=1995|volume=18|issue=1|pages=129–134|url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/singh1995linguistic.pdf|access-date=19 June 2014}}</ref><br />
The speakers of this language use [[Meitei language]] as their [[second language]] (L2) according to the [[Ethnologue]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=[[Ethnologue]] |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Geographical distribution==<br />
Gangte is spoken in 37 villages of southern [[Churachandpur district]], [[Manipur]] (''[[Ethnologue]]''). It is also spoken in [[Meghalaya]] and [[Assam]].{{fact|date=March 2020}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}<br />
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Kuki-Chin languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Meghalaya]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
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