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Hrangkhol Language

Language Metadata

Name of the language: Hrangkhol.
Alternate Name: Hrangkhawl.
Classification: Tibeto-Burman>Central Kuki.
Code: 002_Hra/A_CFEL_TU_2016.
Places/ region spoken at: Dima Hasao district in Assam and in some parts of Tripura, Meghalaya and Mizoram, India.
Language Status: Vulnerable.
Language Resource: Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University.

Hrangkhol is a Kuki-chin language spoken in the district of Dima Hasao in Assam, and also in parts of Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram. The SIL Ethnologue (2000) estimates an approximate population of 18,700 for the Hrangkhol community. There are about 10 Hrangkhol villages under the Haflong Circle in the Dima Hasao district of Assam. Till date only one field trip (18 Feb to 5 March 2017) has been conducted by the field assistants of CFEL in the Zion and the Muolpong villages of the Dima Hasao district. The Zion village has 800 native speakers. This village is 10 kilometres away from the Haflong town. The Muolpong village has 350 native speakers and is 6 kms (approx) away from the Halflong town. Hrangkhol is spoken in the home domain and the dominant languages such as Haflong Hindi, Dimasa and English are spoken outside the home domain. The traditional occupation of the community is Jhum cultivation. The literacy rate of the community is 85%. Hrangkhols are mostly followers of Christianity.

Data collected from the 3 field trips:

1500 lexical items; 100 sentences; 1 story on the origins of the community; and 2 folktales.

Field Assistant with Informants

Field Assistant with Informants


Entrance to the Zion Village

Entrance to the Zion Village