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{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Wancho<br />
|nativename= {{Script|Wcho|𞋒𞋀𞋉𞋃𞋕}} <br/> वांचो<br />
|image=Wancho language.svg<br />
|imagecaption=The word "Wancho" written in Devanagari script<br />
|states=[[India]]<br />
|ethnicity=<br />
|speakers=59,154<br />
|date=2011 census<br />
|ref =<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam2=[[Tibeto-Burman languages|Tibeto-Burman]]<br />
|fam3=[[Sal languages|Sal]]<br />
|fam4=[[Konyak languages|Konyak]]<br />
|fam5=Konyak–Chang<br />
|iso3=nnp<br />
|glotto=wanc1238<br />
|glottorefname=Wancho Naga<br />
|script=[[Devanagari]] (official)<br>[[Wancho script]]<br />
}}<br />
{{Contains special characters<br />
| special = Wancho text<br />
| fix = Help:Multilingual support#Wancho<br />
| characters = Wancho script<br />
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'''Wancho''' (वांचो) is a [[Konyak languages|Konyak]] language of north-eastern [[India]]. Wancho is spoken in 36 villages of southeastern [[Longding district]], [[Tirap district]], [[Arunachal Pradesh]], as well as in [[Assam]] and [[Nagaland]] (''[[Ethnologue]]''). Alternate names include <br />
Banpara Naga, Joboka, Jokoba.<br />
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==People==<br />
Wancho is spoken by the Wancho people who have a population of 56,866 according to a 2011 consensus, and mainly populate the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Although a minority, these inhabitants have a rich culture with rituals, ceremonial practices, religion, and various dialects of Wancho.<ref>[[Wancho people|“Wancho people.”]] Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 Feb. 2018</ref><br />
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==Dialects==<br />
''[[Ethnologue]]'' lists the following dialects of Wancho.<br />
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*Changnoi<br />
*Bor Muthun (Bor Mutonia)<br />
*Horu Muthun<br />
*Kulung Muthun (Mithan)<br />
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There is significant variation among the dialects spoken in the upper and lower regions.<br />
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==Orthography==<br />
Wancho is generally written in either [[Devanagari]] or [[Latin script]].<br />
Between 2001 and 2012, teacher Banwang Losu devised a unique alphabetic [[Wancho script]] which is taught in some schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17067r-n4787r-wancho.pdf|title=L2/17-067R: Proposal to encode the Wancho script in the UCS|date=2017-07-26|first=Michael|last=Everson|author-link=Michael Everson}}</ref> In 2019, the script was officially published into [[Unicode]] 12.0.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Unicode |first1=Inc |title=Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 12.0 |url=http://blog.unicode.org/2019/03/announcing-unicode-standard-version-120.html}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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*Robbins Burling & Mankai Wangsu (1998) [http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/burling1998wancho.pdf "Wancho Phonology and word list"], ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 21.2.<br />
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{{Sal languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Wancho language| ]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Nagaland]]<br />
[[Category:Sal languages]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages written in Devanagari]]<br />
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