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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Languages of the Hmar people}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Hmaric languages<br />
| nativename = Hmar ṭawnghai<br />
| pronunciation = {{IPA|hmr|m̥áːr|}}<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Mizoram]], [[Manipur]], [[Assam]], [[Tripura]], and [[Meghalaya]]<br />
| ethnicity = [[Hmar people|Hmar]]<br />
| speakers = <br />
| date=<br />
| ref =<br />
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan<br />
| fam2 = [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]<br />
| fam3=[[Central Kuki-Chin languages|Central]]<br />
| fam4=[[Mizo language|Mizoic]]<br />
| script = [[Latin script|Latin]]<br />
| nation = <br />
| minority = Assam, Manipur and Mizoram<br />
| iso3 = none<br />
| glotto = hmar1240<br />
| glottorefname = Hmaric<br />
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}}<br />
The '''Hmaric languages''' (''Hmar ṭawnghai'') or '''Hmar languages'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 4.7 - Hmaric |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hmar1240 |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref> are a subbranch of the [[Kukish languages|Kukish-Mizo]] branch of the [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language family]] which comprises [[Hmar language|Hmar proper (Khawsak Țawng/Trawng)]] Țhiek/Thriek, [[Saihriem language|Saihriem]] (Faihriem), Leiri, Dulien/Duhlian(a sub-clan of Faihriem) and others.<ref>VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. [https://stedt.berkeley.edu/pubs_and_prods/STEDT_Monograph8_Proto-Kuki-Chin.pdf ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages'']. STEDT Monograph 8, p. 50.</ref> The Hmar languages are often treated as dialects of a single language, since differences between them are reportedly minor.<ref>Baruah, Dutta P.N. & V.L.Y. Bapui. 1996. ''Hmar Grammar.'' Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, p. 3: "Different sub-tribes and clans speak different varieties [...] The differences among them, however, are marginal".</ref> The speakers of the language are also known as [[Hmars|Hmar]].<br />
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In Manipur, Hmar exhibits partial mutual intelligibility with the other Kukish dialects of the area including [[Thadou language|Thadou]], [[Paite language|Paite]], [[Vaiphei language|Vaiphei]], [[Simte language|Simte]], [[Kom language (India)|Kom]] and [[Gangte language|Gangte]] languages.<ref name=Singh>{{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=Chungkham Yashawanta|title=The linguistic situation in Manipur|journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area|date=1995|volume=18|issue=1|pages=129–134|url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/singh1995linguistic.pdf|accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Mizoram]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Tripura]]<br />
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