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Mising language
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<div>{{distinguish|Hill Miri language|Katcha-Kadugli-Miri language}}<br />
{{Cleanup|reason=it is a mess|date=December 2014}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Mishing<br />
|nativename=Plains Miri<br />
|altname=Mising–Padam–Minyong<br />
|region=[[Assam]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Mising people|Mising]], [[Padam people|Padam]], [[Minyong tribe|Minyong]]<br />
|speakers= 629,954<br />
|date=2011<br />
|ref=e18<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Tani languages|Tani]]<br />
|fam3=East Tani ([[Adi language|Adi]])<br />
|dia1 = [[Padam dialect|Padam]]<br />
|dia2 = Minyong<br />
|dia3 = Mising (Plains Miri)<br />
|iso3=mrg<br />
|glotto=misi1242<br />
|glottorefname=Mising-Padam-Miri-Minyong<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mising''' or '''Mishing''', also known as '''Plains Miri''', is a [[Tani languages|Tani]] language spoken by the [[Mising people]]. There are 517,170 speakers (as per Census of India, 2001), who inhabit mostly the [[Lakhimpur district|Lakhimpur]], [[Sonitpur]], [[Dhemaji]], [[Dibrugarh]], [[Sibsagar]], [[Jorhat]], [[Majuli]], [[Golaghat]], [[Tinsukia]] districts of [[Assam]] and also some parts of [[Arunachal Pradesh]]. The primary literary body of Mising is known as '[[Mising Agom Kebang|Mising Agom Kébang]] (Mising Language Society)'.<br />
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The [[Mising people|Mising]], [[Padam people|Padam]] and [[Minyong people|Minyong]] speak dialects of the same language.<br />
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== Phonology ==<br />
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=== Consonants ===<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" | <br />
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]<br />
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]<br />
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]<br />
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]<br />
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]<br />
| {{IPA link|m}}<br />
| {{IPA link|n}}<br />
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}<br />
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive]]/<br />[[Affricate]]<br />
! <small>voiceless</small><br />
| {{IPA link|p}}<br />
| {{IPA link|t}}<br />
| {{IPA link|tʃ}}{{efn|name=affricate|[tʃ] and [dʒ] are typically rare, and mainly occur as allophones of /t d/ when after fricatives /s z/.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Doley|first=Basanta K.|title=A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Mising Language}}</ref>}}<br />
| {{IPA link|k}}<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
! <small>voiced</small><br />
| {{IPA link|b}}<br />
| {{IPA link|d}}<br />
| {{IPA link|dʒ}}{{efn|name=affricate}}<br />
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative]]<br />
! <small>voiceless</small><br />
| <br />
| {{IPA link|s}}<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| {{IPA link|h}}{{efn|[h] is heard in place of /s/ within variations of a local dialect.}}<br />
|-<br />
! <small>voiced</small><br />
| <br />
| {{IPA link|z}}<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" | [[Tap and flap consonants|Tap]]<br />
| <br />
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant]]<br />
| {{IPA link|w}}{{efn|[w] is heard phonetically in different environments if a front or central vowel precedes a back vowel (i.e. /aɔ/ ~ [awɔ]).}}<br />
| {{IPA link|l}}<br />
| {{IPA link|j}}<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|}<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
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=== Vowels ===<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"<br />
!<br />
! [[Front vowel|Front]]<br />
![[Central vowel|Central]]<br />
! [[Back vowel|Back]]<br />
|- align="center"<br />
! [[Close vowel|Close]]<br />
|i iː<br />
|ɨ ɨː<br />
|u uː<br />
|-<br />
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]<br />
|ɛ ɛː<br />
|ɜ ɜː<br />
|ɔ ɔː<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Open vowel|Open]]<br />
| <br />
|a aː<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
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==Geographical distribution==<br />
[[File:Mishing house.jpg|thumb|A traditional Mishing house is stilted.]]<br />
''Ethnologue'' gives the following locations for Mising speakers. The Hill Miri live in Arunachal Pradesh, while the Plains Miri live in Assam.<br />
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*[[Assam]]: North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli,Charaideu,Bishwanath,Golaghat, and Tinsukia districts<br />
*[[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
**Districts of East Siang, Lower Dibang valley and Lohit. Also on both sides of Kamla river in Ziro subdivision, Lower Subansiri district<br />
**Daporizo subdivision, Upper Subansiri district<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Mishing Agom Kebang]]<br />
* [[Mishing Autonomous Council]]<br />
* [[Mishing Bane Kebang]]<br />
* [[Takam Mishing Porin Kebang]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.misingagomkebang.org/ misingagomkebang.org] Mising Agom Kebang (Mising Sahitya Sabha) website<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140907170332/http://macgov.in/about.htm macgov.in] Mising Autonomous Council<br />
*[https://wethemising.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/christian-missionary-works-on-mising-language/ wethemising.wordpress.com] Article on Mising language<br />
*Mark Post, [http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0238 A documentation of the Upper Belt variety of Minyong (Adi), Arunachal Pradesh, North East India]. Endangered Languages Archive.<br />
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{{Tani languages}}<br />
{{Arunachal languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Tani languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Arunachal Pradesh]]</div>
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