Zakhring language

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title: "Zakhring language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["miju-languages", "mishmi-languages", "languages-of-tibet", "languages-of-arunachal-pradesh", "language-isolates-of-asia", "definitely-endangered-languages", "endangered-languages-of-china", "endangered-languages-of-india"] description: "Unclassified language spoken in India" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakhring_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Unclassified language spoken in India ::

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Field	Value
name	Zakhring
nativename	Meyor
region	Arunachal
states	India
ethnicity	Zekhring people
speakers	1000
date	2007
ref	e25
familycolor	Sino-Tibetan
fam1	Sino-Tibetan
fam2	Midzuish
iso3	zkr
glotto	zakh1243
glottorefname	Zakhring
map	Lang Status 60-DE.svg
mapcaption
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| name = Zakhring | nativename = Meyor | region = Arunachal | states = India | ethnicity = Zekhring people | speakers = 1000 | date = 2007 | ref = e25 | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam1 = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = Midzuish | iso3 = zkr | glotto = zakh1243 | glottorefname = Zakhring | map = Lang Status 60-DE.svg | mapcaption = Zahkring (also Eastern Mishmi or Zaiwa; known as Meyor in India and Zha (Zhahua 扎话) in China) is a language of Arunachal Pradesh and 3 villages in Tibet.

Classification

Zakhring has been classified as a Midzuish language. Blench and Post (2011) consider Zakhring to be an East Bodish language that has been influenced by Midzu (which they classify as a language isolate) or other divergent languages of the region. In 2015, Blench suggests that Zakhring may be a language isolate. Blench argues that Zakhring had borrowed heavily from Midzu and Tibetic, and then later borrowed from Naga languages and Jingpho as well.

Scott DeLancey (2015) considers Meyor to be part of a wider Central Tibeto-Burman group.

Names

Li and Jiang (2001) reports that the Zakhring have no actual autonym, but are referred to by the neighboring Taraon, Kaman language, Idu, and Tibetan peoples by various names.

• ** (Taraon exonym)
• ** (Kaman exonym)
• ** (Tibetan exonym)
• ** (Idu exonym; the Idu are located in Upper Zayü Township, 上察隅乡)

According to Li and Jiang (2001), the Kaman exonym for the Tibetan people of Bomi County (波密县) is **. The Taraon refer to the Tibetans as **, while the Kaman refer to the Tibetans as **.

Distribution

In China, Zakhring is spoken in Songgu (松古村), Lading (拉丁村), and Tama (塔玛村) villages in Lower Zayü Township (下察隅乡), Zayü County (察隅县), Tibet.

In India, Meyor communities are found in the following 15 villages of Kibthoo Circle and Walong Circle of Anjaw District, Arunachal Pradesh. The total population of the villages numbered 376 as of May 2001.

• Kibthoo Circle
  • Kahao
  • Mosai
  • Danbari
  • Kundan
  • Khroti
  • Yaikung
  • Bara Kundan
  • Kunjuk
• Walong Circle
  • Walong
  • Tinai
  • Dong
  • Tilam
  • Sapkung
  • Pangung

References

References

1. Van Driem, George. (2001). "Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region". Brill.
2. (2011). "(De)classifying Arunachal Languages: Reconstructing the Evidence".
3. Blench, Roger. (2015). "The Classification of Meyor (Zakhring)".
4. DeLancey, Scott. (2015). "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)". Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale.
5. (2001). "Zhāhuà gàikuàng". Mínzú yǔwén.
6. {{harvp. Landi. 2005

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