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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Rongmei<br />
|altname=Songbu<br />
|nativename=''Ruanglat'', "Ruangmei"<br />
|region=[[Assam]], [[Manipur]] and [[Nagaland]]<br />
|ethnicity=[[Rongmei Naga]]<br />
|speakers=350,580 approx<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Zemeic languages]]<br />
|iso3=nbu<br />
|glotto=rong1266<br />
|glottorefname=Rongmei Naga<br />
}}<br />
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'''Rongmei''' is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] language spoken by [[Rongmei Naga]] community in Northeast India.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/nbu|title=Naga, Rongmei|publisher=Ethnologue | access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref> It has been called '''Songbu''' and is close to [[Zeme language|Zeme]] and [[Liangmai language|Liangmai]]. The language has been nomenclatured as "Ruangmei" and studied as a First Language paper from class I to X of Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bsem.nic.in/syllabus.html|title=Board of secondary education manipur- BSEM}}</ref> Ruangmei is studied as a Minor Indian Language(MIL) in Class XI & XII of Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (Cohsem).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cohsem.nic.in/Curriculum_Syllabus_for_Classes_XI_XII.html|title=Welcome to Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur}}</ref><br />
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==Geography==<br />
Rongmei is mostly spoken in the three states of [[Assam]], [[Manipur]] and [[Nagaland]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Distribution of 99 non schedule languages |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Part-B.pdf |website=Census India |publisher=MHA, Govt of India |access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref><br />
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It is the most spoken language in [[Tamenglong district]] and [[Noney district]]; and the second most spoken language in [[Imphal West district]] and [[Bishnupur district]] of Manipur.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Census of language in India 2011|publisher=MHA, Govt of India}}</ref><br />
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== Phonology ==<br />
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=== Consonants ===<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"<br />
! colspan="2" |<br />
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]<br />
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]<br />
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]<br />
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]<br />
![[Glottal fricative|Glottal]]<br />
|-<br />
! rowspan="3" |[[Stop consonant|Plosive]]/<br>[[Affricate]]<br />
!<small>voiceless</small><br />
|p<br />
|t<br />
|tʃ<br />
|k<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
!<small>aspirated</small><br />
|pʰ<br />
|tʰ<br />
|<br />
|kʰ<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
!<small>voiced</small><br />
|b<br />
|d<br />
|dʒ<br />
|ɡ<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]<br />
|m<br />
|n<br />
|<br />
|ŋ<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]<br />
|<br />
|s<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|h<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="2" |[[Trill consonant|Trill]]<br />
|<br />
|r<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
! rowspan="2" |[[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]<br />
!<small>lateral</small><br />
|<br />
|l<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
!<small>central</small><br />
|w<br />
|<br />
|j<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<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<br />
|<br />
|u<br />
|-<br />
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]<br />
|e<br />
|ə<br />
|o<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Open vowel|Open]]<br />
|<br />
|a<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
A lower-mid elongated sound [ɐː] also occurs only in word-medial positions.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tiwari|first=Surendra K.|title=A descriptive grammar of Kabui|publisher=Poona: Deccan College|year=1971}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}<br />
{{Kuki-Chin–Naga languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Nagaland]]<br />
[[Category:Zeme languages]]<br />
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