ISO 639-3 · anmanm
Sino-Tibetan family
Namfau
Namfau is a language of the Kuki-Chin branch (Sino-Tibetan), spoken in India and Myanmar. Wikidata counts about 23,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Asian language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
anm- Glottocode
anal1239- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Wikipedia
- 23 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Namfau |
|---|---|
| Also called | Anal, Namfau language, Anāl, Anāl language |
| All speakers | 23,000 |
| Written in | Latin script, Meetei Mayek |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Sino-Tibetan to Namfau
The branches above Namfau, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in India
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