Puroik language
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This article is about the language called Sulung. For the Sulung people, see Puroik people. For the medieval English land measure, see Sulung (unit of measurement).
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.
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Puroik | |
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Sulung | |
Native to | India, China |
Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
Ethnicity | Puroik people |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2011)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | suv |
Glottolog | puro1234 |
ELP | Puroik |
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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.