Khamti
Hkamti; Khampti; Khamti Shan; Khampti Shan; Khandi Shan; Kam Ti; Tai Kam Ti; Tai-Khamti; Kamti; Kham(p)ti; Hkampti; Shan; Khampti Sam
Tai-Kadai; Kam-Tai; Be-Tai; Tai; Southwest-Central Tai; Southwestern Tai
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Burmese; Jingpho; Assamese
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Tai Khamti Song - pan
Tai Khamti Song - Mun
Words of Life Khamti
Tai Khamti Talk
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8,000 in Myanmar and 5000 in India. Population total all countries: 13,000.
2013
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Myanmar and India
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Myanmar: Kachin State, Putao district and Myitkyina area; north Sagaing Region. India: Assam, Lakimpur district, Barkhamti, Barigaon, Deotola, Tunijan, Sribhuyan, Barpathar, and Tipling villages, Dibrugarh District; Arunachal Pradesh, Siang and Lohit districts, Chakham, Memong, Barpathar, Mime, Kheram, M. Pong, and Man Khao villages in Namsai subdivision, and Ningro, Nanam, Inten, Nathaw, Mamareng, Mahang villages in Lohit.
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Burmese script
Myanmar: Kachin State, Putao district and Myitkyina area; north Sagaing Region. India: Assam, Lakimpur district, Barkhamti, Barigaon, Deotola, Tunijan, Sribhuyan, Barpathar, and Tipling villages, Dibrugarh District; Arunachal Pradesh, Siang and Lohit districts, Chakham, Memong, Barpathar, Mime, Kheram, M. Pong, and Man Khao villages in Namsai subdivision, and Ningro, Nanam, Inten, Nathaw, Mamareng, Mahang villages in Lohit.
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Burmese; Jingpho; Assamese
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All speakers of Khamti are bilingual.
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About 25,000 speakers in Burma and 5,000 speakers in India
2007
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Northwestern Burma; Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Speakers in India located mainly in the southwest of Lohit District near Tezu but south of the Lohit River, and extending into adjacent areas of Tirap District; also at least eight villages in Lakhimpur District of Assam, including one mixed with Phake.
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Speakers in India located mainly in the southwest of Lohit District near Tezu but south of the Lohit River, and extending into adjacent areas of Tirap District; also at least eight villages in Lakhimpur District of Assam, including one mixed with Phake.
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Language name means 'gold place.'
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Despite the fact that this language may not be critically endangered in all countries, in India its condition is "endangered or threatened."
2012
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.http://llmap.org
- Shan and other Northern Tier Southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China: Themes and VariationsEdmondson, Jerold A. 2008. Shan and other Northern Tier Southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China: Themes and Variations. In Diller, Anthony V. N. and Edmondson, Jerold A. and Luo, Yongxian (eds.), The Tai-Kadai Languages, 184-206. London & New York: Routledge.
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