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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Inpui<br />
|altname=Kabui<br />
|nativename=''Inpui chong''<br />
|states=India<br />
|region=[[Manipur]], [[Nagaland]], [[Assam]]<br />
|ethnicity= [[Inpui Naga]]<br />
|speakers=29,000 <br />
|date=2001 census<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=([[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]])<br />
|fam3=[[Zeme languages]]<br />
|iso3=nkf<br />
|glotto=spurious<br />
|glotto2=inpu1234<br />
|glottorefname2=Inpui Naga<br />
}}<br />
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'''Inpui''', or '''Puiron''', is a [[Naga language]] spoken in different villages of [[Senapati district]], [[Tamenglong district]], Noney District, and [[Imphal district]] in [[Manipur]], and in some areas in Nagaland, India. Speakers of Inpui and [[Rongmei language|Rongmei]] are subsumed under the tribal label '''Kabui'''. But the two tribes have different languages and identity. Even though they are considered to be cognate tribes.<br />
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==Language varieties==<br />
Kabui were originally called Inpui, but Rongmei in Imphal valley also used the name Kabui. Rongmei in the hills did not use the name.<br />
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Inpui chong and Rongmei are sometimes considered to be the same language, despite being mutually unintelligible and only 68% lexically similar. The Inpui-speaking people are mainly concentrated in Tamenglong district of Manipur especially in Haochong areas, which is a cluster of about 10 villages.<br />
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Inpui speakers also reside in Tamenglong headquarters, Noney areas, Makuilongdi and Senapati headquarters in Senapati district and three Inpui villages namely Changangei, Yurembam and Tamphagei in Imphal valley. The Inpui-speaking people are also found in Peren and Dimapur district of Nagaland. The most similar dialect with Inpui among the tribal living in Manipur is the Kom dialect.<!--ref name="e16"/--><ref>Kala khuanbaan Volume 1 (Inpui student Union Delhi)</ref><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 />
{{Hill tribes of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Languages of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Nagaland]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Zeme languages]]<br />
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