Nocte language

E644033

The Nocte language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Nocte people of northeastern India, primarily in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Label Occurrences
Nocte language canonical 5

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Sino-Tibetan language
natural language
alternativeName Nocte Naga language
associatedReligion Christianity
traditional animist beliefs
country India
endangered true
ethnicGroup Nocte people
family Sino-Tibetan language family
hasDialects village-based dialects
hasGrammar SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
postpositions rather than prepositions
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length
tonal features
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
neighboringLanguages Assamese language
Hindi language
linked to: Hindi

Tangsa language
Wancho language
primaryUse home domain
intra-community communication
region Namsai district
Tirap district
shiftPressureFrom Assamese
English
Hindi
spokenBy Nocte people
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
India
Northeastern India
linked to: Northeast India
status minority language
vulnerable language
subfamily Tibeto-Burman
subjectOf language preservation initiatives
linguistic documentation efforts
usedIn daily communication within Nocte communities
folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
writingSystem Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nocte language Nocte language
Tangsa language neighboringLanguage Nocte language
Tirap district hasMajorLanguage Nocte language
Wancho language neighboringLanguages Nocte language