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[[File:Puroik diorama.JPG|thumb|"Diorama" exhibit on the Puroik at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar|Jawaharlal Nehru Museum]], [[Itanagar]].]] | [[File:Puroik diorama.JPG|thumb|"Diorama" exhibit featuring [[wax figures]] on the Puroik at [[Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar|Jawaharlal Nehru Museum]], [[Itanagar]].]] | ||
The '''Puroik''' are a tribe of the hill-tracts of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in [[India]]. They speak the [[Puroik language]]. The Puroik people are found in an estimated 53 villages in the districts of [[Lower Subansiri|Subansiri]] and [[Upper Subansiri]], [[Papumpare]], [[Kurung Kumey]] and [[East Kameng]] along the upper reaches of the [[Par River (Arunachal Pradesh)|Par River]]. They number more than 10,000 people according to latest survey.<ref>[http://www.joshuaproject.net/peoples.php?peo3=18186 Joshua Project] estimates 7,000, with about 400 living across the Chinese border. SIL [[Ethnologue]] estimates 5,000 speakers of Puroik as of 2007. Some Puroik use [[Nishi language|Nishi]] as their primary language. Population estimates were somewhat higher in the 1990s, with 10,000 to 12,000 reported in the 1991 [[Indian census]]. {{cite book|last1=Chaudhuri|first1=Sarit Kumar|last2=Chaudhuri|first2=Sucheta Sen|title=Primitive Tribes in Contemporary India: Concept, Ethnography and Demography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oG9_QkvmUKMC&pg=PA376|access-date=12 April 2012|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-026-0|pages=367–368}}</ref> | The '''Puroik''' are a tribe of the hill-tracts of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] in [[India]]. They speak the [[Puroik language]]. The Puroik people are found in an estimated 53 villages in the districts of [[Lower Subansiri|Subansiri]] and [[Upper Subansiri]], [[Papumpare]], [[Kurung Kumey]] and [[East Kameng]] along the upper reaches of the [[Par River (Arunachal Pradesh)|Par River]]. They number more than 10,000 people according to latest survey.<ref>[http://www.joshuaproject.net/peoples.php?peo3=18186 Joshua Project] estimates 7,000, with about 400 living across the Chinese border. SIL [[Ethnologue]] estimates 5,000 speakers of Puroik as of 2007. Some Puroik use [[Nishi language|Nishi]] as their primary language. Population estimates were somewhat higher in the 1990s, with 10,000 to 12,000 reported in the 1991 [[Indian census]]. {{cite book|last1=Chaudhuri|first1=Sarit Kumar|last2=Chaudhuri|first2=Sucheta Sen|title=Primitive Tribes in Contemporary India: Concept, Ethnography and Demography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oG9_QkvmUKMC&pg=PA376|access-date=12 April 2012|year=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-026-0|pages=367–368}}</ref> | ||
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