Kharam language

Kharam
Transliteration of "Kharam" in Meitei script
Native toIndia
RegionManipur
EthnicityKharam people
Native speakers
(1,400 cited 2000)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kfw
Glottologkhar1288  Kharam Naga

Kharam is a Southern Naga language of India. Peterson (2017) classifies the closely related Purum language (and hence Kharam as well) as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin. According Ethnologue, Kharam shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Purum. The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.