Mishing Language
Mishing, also known as Plains Miri and Takam, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Mishing people. There are over 500,000 speakers of the language, who inhabit mostly the Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Tinsukia districts of Assam. The premier literary body of Mishing language is known as 'Mishing Agom'.
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