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Tangkhul language, the Glossary

Index Tangkhul language

Tangkhul is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Tangkhulic branch, spoken in different villages of Ukhrul district, Manipur, India.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 46 relations: Affricate, Akyaung Ari language, Alveolar consonant, Approximant, Back vowel, Bilabial consonant, Central Tibeto-Burman languages, Central vowel, Christian mission, Close vowel, Dental consonant, Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation, Fricative, Front vowel, Glottal consonant, Government of India, Government of Manipur, Imphal Free Press, India, Koki language, Kuki-Chin–Naga languages, Labiodental consonant, Lateral consonant, Latin script, Lexical similarity, Manipur, Meitei language, Meitei script, Mid vowel, Nagaland, Nasal consonant, National Informatics Centre, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Plosive, Rhotic consonant, Sino-Tibetan languages, Tangkhul people, Tangkhul–Maring languages, Tangkhulic languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Ukhrul district, University of Michigan, Velar consonant, William Pettigrew (missionary), Written language.

  2. Languages of Manipur
  3. Languages of Nagaland
  4. Tangkhulic languages

Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

See Tangkhul language and Affricate

Akyaung Ari language

Akyaung Ari, or Ngachan, is a Tangkhulic language spoken in Myanmar. Tangkhul language and Akyaung Ari language are Tangkhulic languages.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Tangkhul language and Alveolar consonant

Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

See Tangkhul language and Approximant

Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

See Tangkhul language and Back vowel

Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

See Tangkhul language and Bilabial consonant

Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Central Tibeto-Burman or Central Trans-Himalayan is a proposed branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family proposed by Scott DeLancey (2015) on the basis of shared morphological evidence.

See Tangkhul language and Central Tibeto-Burman languages

Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

See Tangkhul language and Central vowel

Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

See Tangkhul language and Close vowel

Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation

Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation (DLPI) is a directorate of the Government of Manipur in charge of the language planning and the implementation of language policy. Tangkhul language and directorate of Language Planning and Implementation are languages of Manipur.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

See Tangkhul language and Fricative

Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

See Tangkhul language and Front vowel

Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

See Tangkhul language and Glottal consonant

Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Government of Manipur

The Government of Manipur (Manipur Leingak; /mə.ni.pur lə́i.ŋak/), also known as the State Government of Manipur, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Manipur and its 16 districts.

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Imphal Free Press

Imphal Free Press is an English-language daily published in Manipur, India.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Koki language

Koki (Konke, Kokak), or Koki Naga, is an unclassified Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Burma.

See Tangkhul language and Koki language

Kuki-Chin–Naga languages

The Kuki-Chin–Naga languages are a geographic clustering of languages of the Sino-Tibetan family in James Matisoff's classification used by Ethnologue, which groups it under the non-monophyletic "Tibeto-Burman".

See Tangkhul language and Kuki-Chin–Naga languages

Labiodental consonant

In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as and.

See Tangkhul language and Labiodental consonant

Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

See Tangkhul language and Lateral consonant

Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

See Tangkhul language and Latin script

Lexical similarity

In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar.

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Manipur

Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

See Tangkhul language and Manipur

Meitei language

Meitei, also known as Manipuri, is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India. Tangkhul language and Meitei language are languages of Manipur and languages of Nagaland.

See Tangkhul language and Meitei language

Meitei script

The Meitei script (ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ|Meitei mayek), also known as the Kanglei script (ꯀꯪꯂꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ|Kanglei mayek) or the Kok Sam Lai script (ꯀꯣꯛ ꯁꯝ ꯂꯥꯏ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ|Kok Sam Lai mayek), after its first three letters is an abugida in the Brahmic scripts family used to write the Meitei language, the official language of Manipur, Assam and one of the 22 official languages of India.

See Tangkhul language and Meitei script

Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

See Tangkhul language and Mid vowel

Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the north-eastern region of India.

See Tangkhul language and Nagaland

Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Tangkhul language and Nasal consonant

National Informatics Centre

The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Tangkhul language and Open vowel

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Tangkhul language and Palatal consonant

Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

See Tangkhul language and Plosive

Rhotic consonant

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.

See Tangkhul language and Rhotic consonant

Sino-Tibetan languages

Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers.

See Tangkhul language and Sino-Tibetan languages

Tangkhul people

The Tangkhul people, also known as the Tangkhul, are a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group living in the Indo–Mayanmar border area, occupying the Ukhrul district and Kamjong district in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur, and in parts of neighbouring Myanmar.

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Tangkhul–Maring languages

The Naga–Maring languages are a putative small family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in eastern Manipur of northeast India and Southwestern Sagaing in Myanmar.

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Tangkhulic languages

The Tangkhulic and Tangkhul languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mostly in northeastern Manipur, India.

See Tangkhul language and Tangkhulic languages

Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.

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Ukhrul district

Ukhrul district (Meitei pronunciation:/ˈuːkˌɹəl or ˈuːkˌɹʊl/) is an administrative district of the state of Manipur in India with its headquarters at Ukhrul.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

See Tangkhul language and Velar consonant

William Pettigrew (missionary)

William Pettigrew (5 January 1869 – 19 January 1943) was a British Christian missionary who went to India in 1890, eventually brought western education in Manipur and introducing Jesus Christ to the Tangkhul Naga tribe, inhabiting Ukhrul district and he became the main catalyst for the surge in current christian population in Manipur.

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Written language

A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing.

See Tangkhul language and Written language

See also

Languages of Manipur

Languages of Nagaland

Tangkhulic languages

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangkhul_language

Also known as East-Central Tangkhul Naga, East-Central Tangkhul Naga language, ISO 639:nmf, Kupome language, Luhupa language, Luhuppa language, Northern Luhupa language, Tangkhul Naga (India), Tangkhul Naga language, Tangkhul Naga language (India), Ukhrul language.