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|name=Kharam<br />
|altname=<br />
|nativename=<br />
|states= [[India]]<br />
|region=[[Manipur]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Kharam people]]<br />
|speakers=1,400<br />
|date=2000<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=([[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]])<br />
|fam3=[[Kuki-Chin-Naga languages|Kuki-Chin-Naga]]<br />
|fam4=[[Southern Naga languages|Southern Naga]]<br />
|iso3=kfw<br />
|glotto=khar1288<br />
|glottoname=Kharam Naga<br />
}}<br />
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'''Kharam''' is a [[Southern Naga languages|Southern Naga]] language of India. Peterson (2017)<ref name="Peterson2017">Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. ''Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley'', 189-209. Leiden: Brill.</ref> classifies the closely related [[Purum language]] (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the ''Northwestern'' branch of Kuki-Chin. According ''Ethnologue'', Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with [[Purum language|Purum]].<br />
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==Geographical distribution==<br />
Kharam Naga is spoken in the following locations of [[Manipur]] (''[[Ethnologue]]'').<br />
*[[Senapati district]]: Purumlikli, Purumkhulen, Purumkhunou, Waicheiphai, and Moibunglikli villages<br />
*[[Chandel district]]: Lamlang Huipi, Chandanpokpi, Khongkhang Chothe, Loirang Talsi, Salemthar, Zat’lang, and New Wangparan villages<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}<br />
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
[[Category:Languages of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Southern Naga languages]]</div>UpdateBot