Anāl language

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Anāl, 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 the Anal people in India and a dwindling number in Burma. It had 13,900 speakers in India according to the 2001 census, and 50 in Burma in 2010.^[1] The speakers of this language use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[2]

Anāl
Anāl written in Meitei script
Native to	India and Myanmar
Region	Southeast Manipur
Ethnicity	Anāl Naga
Native speakers	14,000 (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Kuki-Chin Anāl
Dialects	Langet
Writing system	Latin script Meitei script (to lesser extent)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	anm
Linguist List	qfs Langet
Glottolog	anal1239
ELP	Anal

The Department of Language Planning and Implementation of the Government of Manipur offers a sum of ₹5,000 (equivalent to ₹8,500 or US$100 in 2023), to every individual who learns Anal language, under certain terms and conditions.^[3]

Anal is also written in the Latin script,^[4] with a literacy rate of about 74%.^[1]

Langet may be a dialect, though its position within Kukish is uncertain (Shafer 1955:106).^{[needs update]}