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Tai-Khamyang Language

Tai-Khamyang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in the Pawoimukh village of the Margherita sub-division in the Tinsukia district of Assam. According to the SIL Ethnologue the total population is 200 of which only 50 are fluent speakers of the language. The village is 12 kms away from the Margherita town. Till date two field trips have been conducted in the Pawoimukh village. However, as per the information collected by the staff of CFEL, the total number of fluent speakers has now dropped to 10 speakers of the grand-parental generation. The fluent speakers are far beyond the child-bearing age and hence it is too late for natural intergenerational restoration of the language in the home domains. Tai-Khamyang has been assigned the 'dying' status on the ethnologue EGIDS scale. The dominant language spoken in the Pawoimukh village is Assamese. According to the 2011 Census, the literacy rate is 67.51%. The traditional occupation of the Tai-Khamyang people is farming. They are the followers of Threvadi Buddhism.

Data collected from the 3 field trips:

1000 words; 250 sentences; and one narration about the migration of the community.

The Pawoimukh Village

The Pawoimukh Village


Field Assistant with an Informant

Field Assistant with an Informant