Anal, also known as Namfau after the two principal villages it is spoken in, is a Northern Kukish language, part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken by a dwindling number of Anal people in India, a few in Burma, and possibly Bangladesh. It had 14,000 speakers in India according to the 2001 census. UNESCO lists Anal as having 23,000 speakers in total, making it a vulnerable language. It has two principal dialects, Laizo and Malshom, and is closest to Lamkang. The language of wider communication is Meithei.
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Anal, also known as Namfau after the two principal villages it is spoken in, is a Northern Kukish language, part of the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken by a dwindling number of Anal people in India, a few in Burma, and possibly Bangladesh. It had 14,000 speakers in India according to the 2001 census. UNESCO lists Anal as having 23,000 speakers in total, making it a vulnerable language. It has two principal dialects, Laizo and Malshom, and is closest to Lamkang. The language of wider communication is Meithei.
Anal is written in the Latin script, with a literacy rate of about 74%.
Langet may be a dialect, though its position within Kukish is uncertain (Shafer 1955:106).
