Konyak language

Konyak is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Konyak people in the state of Nagaland, north-eastern India. It is written using the Latin script.
The language has speakers in the state ; most of these are in Mon district, with smaller populations in the districts of Dimapur, Kohima, Mokokchung, and Longleng. There are also an estimated 2,000 speakers in neighbouring Myanmar, specifically in Hkamti District and in Lahe township.

Dialects

Konyak (2021)

A list of Konyak dialects from Hoipo Konyak is given below.

''Ethnologue''

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Konyak.
Tableng is the standard dialect spoken in Wanching and Wakching.

Phonology

There are three lexically contrastive contour tones in Konyak – rising, falling and level.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close
Mid
Open

The vowels, and are lengthened before approximants. does not occur finally.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive
Nasal
Fricative
Lateral
Approximant

The stops and contrast with the aspirated and. and become voiced intervocalically across morpheme boundaries. The dental is realised as an alveolar if preceded by a vowel with a rising tone. The approximants and are pronounced laxer and shorter after vowels; becomes tenser initially before high vowels. If morpheme-initial or intervocalic, is pronounced with audible friction.,,,,, and do not occur morpheme-finally, while does not appear morpheme-initially. Except for morpheme-initial and, consonant clusters occur only medially.