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Chiru

Facts:    
  • Population: 7,000 (2000 Khorong).
  • Region: 7,000 (2000 Khorong).
  • Alternatives: Chhori
  • Dialects: Closest language linguistically is Chin Mizo
  • Classification: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Kuki-Chin-Naga, Kuki-Chin, Northern
  • Language use: All ages. Educated youths are more interested in developing first language and preserving culture than the elders. Speakers have high proficiency in Meitei
  • Language development: Literacy rate in second language: 56% in English and Meitei (Khorong 2000). Older people read Meitei in Bengali script. Younger people read English in Roman script. Roman, Bengali scripts
  • Comments: A Scheduled Tribe in India. Mountain slope, plains. Scrub forest and tropical forest. Agriculturalists: swidden and wet cultivation. Christian
Sources:
 • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.
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 • Languages
[ Entry added by Divyalina Bhuyan on May 7, 2009 ]
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