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Run by the Gangte people and an American, we work to document, promote, and protect Gangte, an endangered language of northeast India w/ 15,000 speakers #gangte

Manipur, India
Joined September 2016
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#Gangte uses plural forms less than #English (i.e. after numbers where plural is implied). Bâwng lî literally means "cow four" @wikitongues
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Our online course in #Gangte, a language listed by @UNESCO as #endangered, includes culture info + folktales too! tribalingual.com
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Which of these animals in #Gangte (endangered language of 15,000 speakers) means #monkey: ai, vawk, zâwng? Find out: tribalingual.com
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Where is #Gangte, one of our endangered languages, spoken? #Manipur #India! Discover a new culture w/ tribalingual.com @livingtongues
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Like Spanish/Portuguese, #Gangte can drop subject pronouns w/o altering meaning: Kei ka hât hi=Ka hât hi (I'm strong) @livingtongues
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"Chibai! Bang na ti zel na?" Find out what this means by studying #Gangte, one of our rare languages! @hellopolyglot tribalingual.com
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The alphabet in #Gangte, a @tribalingual language, has letters aw, ch, + ng. It does not have c, j, q, r, w, x or y. tribalingual.com
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How do you call man's best friend in @Tribalingual #languages? нохой= #Mongolian, uicha= #Gangte. Learn the rest at tribalingual.com
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HOUSE in #Mongolian = байшин. #Gangte = in. Feel at home w/@Tribalingual. Learn "house" in our other languages too! tribalingual.com
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Lung, thing, in, + hat are false cognates in #Gangte! Find out what they mean by studying this cool language w/us at tribalingual.com
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One of our languages has 6 ways to say "to wear," depending where you wear an item: âk, awk, but, cheng, khu, kivan. The language? #Gangte!
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#Gangte, a @tribalingual language, uses tone + vowel length to differentiate words. Nga=5, ngâ=fish. Ngâ nga=5 fish.
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#Gangte has a new music video! KA HUN PHAL PUOI "I Can't Let You!" Let's celebrate endangered language videos! youtube.com/watch?v=Brf3b3T8…
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This is great news! Indigenous #languages everywhere need help, including ours! #Gangte #cherisheverylanguage teapawt.net/tribalingual/status/81…
UN proclaims 2019 the International Year of #Indigenous #Languages! google.es/amp/amp.eluniversa… Study an indigenous language w/tribalingual.com!
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NANG IN CHANGTHAK NA NEI (You eat bread). Literally: You(singular subject pronoun)+(transitive particle)+bread+you(particle)+eat. #Gangte
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In #Gangte language, subject pronouns are optional. It uses pronoun particles to indicate who a sentence is about already. #Languages
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