Angami language

Angami, more commonly referred to as Tenyidie, is a Naga language spoken in the Naga Hills in the northeastern part of India, in Kohima district, Nagaland. In 2011, there is an estimate of 153,000 first language Angami speakers. Under the UNESCO's Language Vitality and Endangerment framework, Angami is at the level of "vulnerable", meaning that it is still spoken by most children, but "may be restricted to certain domains".

Phonology

Consonants

This table represents the consonantal structure of the Khonoma dialect.
Other dialects also contrast. only occurs as an allophone of. The velar fricative is in free variation with. The post-alveolar approximants are truly retroflex before mid and low vowels, but laminal before high vowels.
Angami voiceless nasals are unusual in that, unlike the voiceless nasals of Burmese, they have a positive rather than negative voice onset time—that is, they are aspirated rather than partially voiced. The same is true of the laterals. In both cases, the aspiration has the formants characteristic of Angami h, which is somewhat velar in pronunciation. The other voiceless approximants may not be aspirated, as the h-like formants occur during the entire hold of the consonant.

Vowels

The following are the vowels of the Khonoma dialect.

	Front	Central	Back
Close
Mid
Open

The labial and labialized consonants have labiodental affricate allophones before . In addition, about half the time, the rhotic becomes syllabic in this environment:

Phon.	allophone before
p	pfə ~ fə ?

m̥ʰ	ɱ̊ʰə
m	ɱə
kʷʰ	kʰfə
kʷ	kvə
ɡʷ	ɡvə
ɻ	ɻ̩ ~ ɚ

Angami syllables may be of the form V, CV, or. Attested clusters are.

Phonological reconstruction

Meyase recognizes southern, northern, and western dialects of Angami, including the following.

Southern: Jokha, Kiwe
Northern: Kewhi
Western: Khwüno

Preliminary Proto-Tenyi lexical reconstructions by Meyase, with supporting data from four Tenyidie dialects, are as follows.

Gloss	Proto-Tenyi	Jokha	Kiwe	Kewhi	Khwüno
do	*tsʰi	tʰə́	cʰə́	tsʰə́	ʃə́
hurt	*tsʰi	tʰə̄	cʰə̄	tsʰə̄	ʃə̄
flesh	*tsʰi	tʰə̀	cʰə̀	tsʰə̀	ʃə̀
old	*gwe	wé	wé	wé	gwé
bison	*gwi	wí	wí	wí	gwí
wash hand	*m-to	metò	metò	metì	metì
transform	*m-vi	meví	meví	meví	meví
make good	*p-vi	meví	meví	peví	peví
all	*p-te	metē	metē	petē	petē
green	*p-ɟo	meɟò	meɟò	peɟò	peʒiè
wait	*kʰwe	qʰwé	kʰwé	fé-pfʰé	kʰwé
shawl	*kʰwe	qʰwè	kʰwè	fè-pfʰè	kʰwè
bee	*m-kʰwi	oqʰwí	akʰwí	mefī	mekʰwí
monkey	*t-kwi	oqwī	akwī	tepfī	tekwī
tidy up	*k-kwe	qeqwè	kekwè	kepfè	kekwè
to fly	*pro	prō	prō	pruō	pō
strong	*ko	qō	kō	kuō	kō
to walk	*to	tò	tò	tiò	tò

Northern sound change innovations include:

*kw > pf, f
*o > uo, io

Southern sound change innovations include:

*pe- > me-

Grammar and lexicon

A wealth of Angami grammars, lexicons are available in Tenyidie and in English. However, these collections often
conflict in their analysis of the phonemic or syntactic nature of the language. This is due to the difference at the time
of the documentation, and the choice of informants from varying dialect. Especially in the earlier language
documentations, mostly by Christian missionary; their informants' meta-data were not specified and
any dialect of Angami were assumed to be the "standard" of Angami within the Nagaland region. The Angami-English Phrasebook and Angami-English-Hindi dictionary available online.

Text collection

The complete Tenyidie bible was published in 1970. However, only the translated chapter of Genesis from the bible was posted on the internet under The Rosetta Project. Also, Christian devotional materials such as The Bible...Basically® in Tenyidie are also available online.
Another source of text is largely from the ethnic folktales and
especially from song lyrics written in Tenyidie. Other than Christian songs written by the Angami church community
, the rising rock music culture started to stir in the Nagaland as the music events and societies like the Hornbill National Rock Contest
The next largest source of Tenyidie is the educational materials used in the Kohima schools and university.
Although much of these texts are in printed forms, a query on the web does retrieve some Indian exams papers that contain test questions on Tenyidie.