Moyon language

Moyon is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily,^[2][3] spoken by the Moyon people in Manipur, India and in Burma. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[4]

Moyon
Native to	India
Region	Nagaland, Manipur
Ethnicity	Moyon people
Native speakers	3,700 (2001)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Northwestern Moyon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nmo
Glottolog	moyo1238

A Quadrilingual Moyon-Manipuri-English-Nagamese book titled "A Guide Book to Moyon Language", was published by the Moyon Literature Society in 2023.^[5]

Geographical distribution

Moyon is spoken in the following locations (Ethnologue).

• Chandel district, Manipur: 14 villages including Moyon Khullen, Khongjom, Mitong, Komlathabi, Penaching, and Heigru Tampak
• Nagaland (near the Myanmar border)