Sulung
A language of India
| Population | 5,000 (2007 SIL). |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh, East Kameng, Papumpare, Kurung Kumey, Lower Subansiri districts, along Par River. 53 villages. Possibly also in China. |
| Alternate names | Puroik |
| Dialects | A divergent language which may not be Sino-Tibetan but possibly Austro-Asiatic. Intelligible with Bugun [bgg] (Chowdhury 1996). Burling (2003) groups it with Sherdukpen [sdp] and Bugun and possibly also with Lish [lsh] and Sartang [onp]. Lexical similarity: 54%–67% between varieties; 57%–68% with Chug [cvg]; less than 15% with Bugun and Nisi. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, North Assam, Tani |
| Language use | Home, village. Positive attitude. Also use Nisi [dap], Hindi, or Assamese [asm]. |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 2%. Dictionary. |
| Writing system | Bengali script. Devanagari script. Latin script. |
| Comments | A ‘satellite relationship’ to the Nisi and Bangni peoples, ‘bonded economically’. A Scheduled Tribe in India. Claim kinship with the Khoa or Bugun. Transitional between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian, Hindu. |
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