Idu Mishmi | |
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Region | India: Assam; Arunachal Pradesh: Dibang Valley district, Lower Dibang valley, Lohit; East Siang District; Upper Siang. China: southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region: Nyingchi Prefecture: Zayü County; western Yunnan |
Ethnicity | Mishmi people (categorized as Lhoba and Mishmi) |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2001 census)[1] |
Possibly Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | clk |
Glottolog | idum1241 |
ELP | Idu-Mishmi |
![]() Idu Mishmi is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
The Idu Mishmi language is a small language spoken by the Mishmi people in Dibang Valley district, Lower Dibang Valley district, Lohit district, East Siang district, Upper Siang district of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and in Zayü County of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. There were 8569 speakers in India in 1981 and 7000 speakers in China in 1994. It is considered an endangered language.