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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Khiamniungan <br />
|nativename=<br />
|states=[[Nagaland]], [[India]]<br />
|ethnicity= [[Khiamniungan people|Khiamniungan]]<br />
|speakers=61,983<br />
|date=2011 census<br />
|ref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Brahmaputran languages|Brahmaputran]]<br />
|fam3=[[Konyak languages|Konyak]]<br />
|fam4=Konyak–Chang <br />
|iso3=kix<br />
|glotto=khia1236<br />
|glottorefname=Khiamniungan Naga<br />
}}<br />
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'''Khiamniungan''' is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] spoken by the [[Khiamniungan people]] in east-central [[Noklak District]] of [[Nagaland]] in northeastern India and in northwestern Burma. Most of the Khiamniungans in India are known to Pathso-Nyu which remains the main language within their geographical region.<br />
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==Names==<br />
Alternate names for Khiamniungan include Aoshedd, Khiamnga, Kalyokengnyu, Khiamngan, Khiamniungan, Nokaw, Tukhemmi, and Welam (''Ethnologue'').<br />
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==Distribution and status==<br />
There are approximately 50,000 speakers of Khiamniungan. There are an estimated 29 Khiamniungan villages in India and 132 in Burma.<ref>Pillai, S.K. (2001). The Water People: a Khiamniungan landscape. India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 27/28, Vol. 27, no. 4/Vol. 28, no. 1: The Human Landscape, 95–108. Retrieved from JSTOR.</ref> "Khiamniungan" is the [[Exonym and endonym|autonym]] for the language, which means "the source of water" or "water people", whereas ''Kalyokengnyu'' is an [[exonym]] meaning "dwelling in stone", given to the group by European anthropologists after the slate roof houses the people lived in.<ref>Matisoff, J. (1996). Languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman (2nd ed., p. 76). Berkeley: STEDT.</ref> The low number of speakers of Khiamniugan makes it vulnerable, but it is taught in schools and supported by the government through cultural programs.<ref name=e18>{{Ethnologue18|kix}}</ref><br />
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==Writing system==<br />
Like most languages spoken in Nagaland, Khiamniungan is written in a [[ISO basic Latin alphabet|Latin alphabet]], due to the early Christian missionary presence in the region.<ref>Minahan, J. (2012). Nagas. In Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO.</ref><br />
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==History of scholarship==<br />
Most of the information of Khiamniungan comes from its inclusion in studies of the Naga or [[Konyak languages]] by the [[Central Institute for Indian Languages]] in Mysore. There is also a Khiamniungan vocabulary published in 1974 by Nagaland Bhasha-Parishad.<ref>Kumāra, B. Bihārī. (1975). Hindi khiyamanna Angreji sabda-suci = Hindi Khiamngan English Vocabulary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
[[Khiamniungan people]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/5645 Khiamniungan Naga at the Endangered Languages Project]<br />
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