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Patsho Khiamniungan
pɑ³³tsʰɒ⁵⁵
Pronunciation	Khiamniungan Naga pronunciation: [/pɑ³³tsʰɒ⁵⁵ kʰiɑm³³ɲu⁵⁵ŋn⁵⁵/]
Native to	India
Region	Noklak District, Nagaland
Ethnicity	Khiamniungan Naga
Native speakers	120,000 approx. in Myanmar and 61,983 approx (2011)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Brahmaputran Konyak Konyak–Chang Khiamniungic Khiamniungan South Khiamniungan Naga Patsho Khiamniungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kix
Glottolog	pats1234
Patsho-speaking region

Patsho Khiamniungan is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Noklak district in the state of Nagaland, India.^[2]

The Patsho Khiamniungan alphabet consists of the following letters:

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This makes for 27 letters in Patsho Khiamniungan.

Patsho is a language spoken in eastern part of Nagaland state and also refers to the people living under Noklak district in India. Above all, it is a village with one of the highest number of Population in the region. Sometimes, it refers to Patsho speaking group of people who are native to and belong to Patsho Village.^[2]

Patsho Khiamniungan is a sino-Tibetan,^[4] compound of two words. Patsho is a village in Nagaland and Khiamniungan refers to one of the major tribes in Nagaland.^[5]

The phonological inventory of Patsho Khiamniungan is as follows.

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There are four phonemic tones in Patsho,

• high level /55/
• mid level /33/
• high falling /52/
• low /31/^[3]

Patsho Khiamniungan has the following diphthongs:

Patsho Khiamniungan has the following triphthongs:

• iai, as in hiai,
• iau as in hiauh, kiau,
• uai, as in huai,kuai,
• üie, as in khǖîe
• uau, as in liuau,
• uou, as in Tiuou,
• oua, as in touap,

• èi sōih-à jǖ-shíu-shī-ê.

1sg.ABS go.away-INF NEG-be.able-RSMPT-IRR

‘I won’t be able to go away again.’

(AC4-20170109_KIX1-002)

• ngǖ-ōh yôh nǜ hâkūtî vâuh tèu-nyê.

1SG-ERG pig DEM large rear keep-REAL

I am rearing a large pig

(AC4-20050127_KIX1_001)

• nyǖ-ōh ātsòu èi jūa-ê tə)náihtǖ,

2SG-ERG really 1SG.ABS call-IRR COND

nyǖ-ōh ā-jāmsǖkōuh mèi-kǖ ā-hīe.

2SG-ERG 2SG.POSS-household good-SIM IMP-make

If you really plan to call me (to marry), then you set your ^[6]

The verbs are not conjugated as in languages such as English and French by changing the desinence of words, but the tense (in a sentence) is clarified by the aspect and the addition of some particles, such as

• -e (Irrealis mood suffix -encoding a hypothetical or predicted situation. ),

For example: Ei phu-e/I will come

• nye (Realis mood - used to encode actualized events and states),

For example: Ei khu nye/I went

• -shī (resumptive aspect-nominal suffix),

For example: Lü khushi/go again(lü-imperative prefix/mood)(authoritative command)

• nyü (Prohibitive mood),

For example: Nyü khu/Don't go

• ie (nominal suffix. reciprocal suffix),

For example: Nyü vei-ie/Don't fight

Nouns are pluralized by suffixing -hoi, for example:

For declarative sentences, negation is achieved by adding the particle jü (not) in the middle of a sentence. For example,

(1).

• “Standard” Nagamese (Indo-Aryan):

kana hik-i-bole song learn-EP-INF6

‘to learn a song’

• Patsho Khiamniungan (Konyakian):

tsūihāng līam-ā song search-INF

‘to learn a song’

• Nagamese of Patsho Khiamniungan speakersː

kana pisar-i-bole song search-EP-INF

‘to learn a song

(2)

• Mongsen Ao (Indo-Burmic):

tāŋ%āɹ tʃū nə) tə)-pāʔ khə) tə)-jā nə)t other DIST AGT RL-father CONJ RL-mother two tāŋ tʃū nə) wā-ə+ɹ, SIDE DIST ALL go-SEQ

‘Others went to the mother and father,…’

(lit. to the mother and father’s side), (Coupe 2017, p. 290)

• Patsho Khiamniungan (Konyakian):

lōhō mīe-nyù nǖ tōŋ-lè khù-shī-nyè. again girl-F DEM SIDE-LOC go-RPET-REAL

‘Again he went to the girl.’ (lit. … to the girl’s side’)

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Patsho Khiamniungan is a tonal, agglutinative and SOV language with postpositions. Adjectives, numerals and demonstratives comes after the nouns they modify, whilst relative clauses may be either externally or internally headed. Interrogative such as ateitsoh? appears after the noun or subject but the word mou? usually comes at the end, transforming the sentence into question.

• Example of interrogative?

• Example of numeral

• Example of adjective

• Example of demonstrative

Demonstratives seems to appear either before noun or after, shown by the example given below.

Orthography which is in Latin script has been written and published for language development and preservation for cultural identity. Along with other pedagogical materials and dictionary for the oral language.^[2][7]

Patsho Khiamniungan is written in Latin script with twenty seven letters, while some of them are combined to form one letter, for example t, s, and h are different and separate letters, but tsh is one letter, found in (among others) the word Patsho.^[3]

The following is a sample text in Patsho Khiamniungan of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:^[8] or ^[9]

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• Khiamniungan language
• Khiamniungan people
• Patsho
• Nütsah
• Phie
• Pou
• Mount Khülio-King

• Khiamniungan Naga phrasebook travel guide from Wikivoyage