Tiwa language (India)

Tiwa
	Lalung
	তিৱা (লালুং)
Native to	India
Region	Assam, Meghalaya
Ethnicity	371,000 approx. Tiwa (Lalung) (2011 census)[1]
Native speakers	33,921 (2011 census)[2]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Brahmaputran Bodo–Garo Bodo Tiwa; ; ; ;
Writing system	Assamese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lax
Glottolog	tiwa1253
ELP	Tiwa[3]

Tiwa (Lalung) is a Tibeto-Burman or Sino-Tibetan language of Assam in North East India.

Tiwa Mor (Tiwa Community Alphabet)

Language and Geographical distribution

Like most languages of the hill tribes of the northeast, hill Tiwa does not have its own script and is written in the Roman (Latin) alphabet, occasionally in English and Assamese script. Tiwa is spoken in the following districts (Ethnologue).

Assam
- East and West Karbi Anglong district
- Nagaon district (Nambor)
- Morigaon district
- Kamrup district

Meghalaya
- Khasi Hills district (Ri-Bhoi district)

References

Tiwa language (India) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
"Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
Endangered Languages Project data for Tiwa.

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[e18-1] Tiwa language (India) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

[ELP1-3] Endangered Languages Project data for Tiwa.