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{{distinguish|Hill Miri language|Katcha-Kadugli-Miri language}}
{{Cleanup|reason=it is a mess|date=December 2014}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Mishing
|nativename=Plains Miri
|altname=Mising–Padam–Minyong
|region=[[Assam]]
|ethnicity=[[Mising people|Mising]], [[Padam people|Padam]], [[Minyong tribe|Minyong]]
|speakers= 629,954
|date=2011
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan
|fam2=[[Tani languages|Tani]]
|fam3=East Tani ([[Adi language|Adi]])
|dia1 = [[Padam dialect|Padam]]
|dia2 = Minyong
|dia3 = Mising (Plains Miri)
|iso3=mrg
|glotto=misi1242
|glottorefname=Mising-Padam-Miri-Minyong
}}

'''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)'.

The [[Mising people|Mising]], [[Padam people|Padam]] and [[Minyong people|Minyong]] speak dialects of the same language.

== Phonology ==

=== Consonants ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! colspan="2" |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| {{IPA link|n}}
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Plosive]]/ [[Affricate]]
! voiceless
| {{IPA link|p}}
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{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>}}
| {{IPA link|k}}
|
|-
! voiced
| {{IPA link|b}}
| {{IPA link|d}}
| {{IPA link|dʒ}}{{efn|name=affricate}}
| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
|
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative]]
! voiceless
|
| {{IPA link|s}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|h}}{{efn|[h] is heard in place of /s/ within variations of a local dialect.}}
|-
! voiced
|
| {{IPA link|z}}
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Tap and flap consonants|Tap]]
|
| {{IPA link|ɾ}}
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Approximant]]
| {{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]).}}
| {{IPA link|l}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
|
|
|}
{{notelist}}

=== Vowels ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|- align="center"
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
|i iː
|ɨ ɨː
|u uː
|-
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|ɛ ɛː
|ɜ ɜː
|ɔ ɔː
|- align="center"
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|a aː
|
|}

==Geographical distribution==
[[File:Mishing house.jpg|thumb|A traditional Mishing house is stilted.]]
''Ethnologue'' gives the following locations for Mising speakers. The Hill Miri live in Arunachal Pradesh, while the Plains Miri live in Assam.

*[[Assam]]: North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli,Charaideu,Bishwanath,Golaghat, and Tinsukia districts
*[[Arunachal Pradesh]]
**Districts of East Siang, Lower Dibang valley and Lohit. Also on both sides of Kamla river in Ziro subdivision, Lower Subansiri district
**Daporizo subdivision, Upper Subansiri district

== See also ==
* [[Mishing Agom Kebang]]
* [[Mishing Autonomous Council]]
* [[Mishing Bane Kebang]]
* [[Takam Mishing Porin Kebang]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.misingagomkebang.org/ misingagomkebang.org] Mising Agom Kebang (Mising Sahitya Sabha) website
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140907170332/http://macgov.in/about.htm macgov.in] Mising Autonomous Council
*[https://wethemising.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/christian-missionary-works-on-mising-language/ wethemising.wordpress.com] Article on Mising language
*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.

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{{Arunachal languages}}
{{Languages of Northeast India}}

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[[Category:Languages of Assam]]
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]
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