Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Phom, Chingmengnu, Tamlu, Phon, Tamlu Naga, Chingmengu, Tśingmegnu, Naga, Phom
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Brahmaputran
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nph
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Yongyasha
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: The vast majority of speakers (122,454) live in Nagaland.

	2007	South Asia and the Middle East	Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages	283-348	Christopher Moseley	London & New York: Routledge			George van Driem	George van Driem. 2007. "South Asia and the Middle East." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 283-348. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD	~19,000		10000-99999	Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	India	southwestern Nagaland state
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub							26.7799,94.9493
	2001	Census of India: Distribution of the 100 Non-Scheduled Languages of India	Census of India					http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/partb.htm				122,508	2001 (census data)	100000	At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	India	The vast majority of speakers (122,454) live in Nagaland.

Phom Naga