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| Puroik | |
|---|---|
| Sulung | |
| Native to | India, China |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Puroik people |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2011)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | suv |
| Glottolog | puro1234 |
| ELP | Puroik |
The Puroik language (previously called Sulung, a derogatory term, by other tribes) is a possible language isolate spoken by the Puroik people of Arunachal Pradesh in India and of Lhünzê County, Tibet, in China.
Besides their own language, the Puroik also use Nishi, Hindi, and Assamese. Literacy is very low, at about 2%. Those who are literate use either the Bengali script, Devanagari or the Latin alphabet to write Puroik.
- ^ Puroik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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