Rongmei language

Rongmei is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Rongmei Naga community in Northeast India.^[1] It has been called Songbu and is close to Zeme and Liangmai. The language has been nomenclatured as "Ruangmei" and studied as a First Language paper from class I to X of Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.^[2] Ruangmei is studied as a Minor Indian Language (MIL) in Class XI & XII of Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (COHSEM).^[3]

Rongmei
Songbu
Ruanglat, "Ruangmei"
Region	Assam, Manipur and Nagaland
Ethnicity	Rongmei Naga
Native speakers	(undated figure of 350,580[citation needed])
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Zemeic Rongmei
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nbu
Glottolog	rong1266
ELP	Rongmei Naga

Geography

Rongmei is mostly spoken in the three states of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland.^[4]

It is the most spoken language in Tamenglong district and Noney district; and the second most spoken language in Imphal West district and Bishnupur district of Manipur.^[5]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Fricative			s			h
Trill			r
Approximant	lateral		l
	central	w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

A lower-mid elongated sound [ɐː] also occurs only in word-medial positions.^[6]