Anāl, also known as Namfau after the two principal villages it is spoken in, is a Kuki-Chin language, belonging to the Northwestern or "Old Kuki" subfamily, 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. The speakers of this language use the Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.
The Department of Language Planning and Implementation of the Government of Manipur offers a sum of , to every individual who learns Anal language, under certain terms and conditions.
Anal is also written in the Latin script, with a literacy rate of about 74%.
Geographical distribution Anal is spoken in southeastern Manipur, in the Chandel district, on the banks of the Chakpi River in towns such as Chandel and Chakpikarong, and also in the Tengnoupal district (Ethnologue).
Phonology
Consonants LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasalvoicelessm̥n̥ŋ̊voicedmnŋPlosive/AffricateaspiratedpʰtʰkʰvoicelesspttʃkvoicedbddʒFricativeshApproximantvoicedʋlvoicelessl̥Rhoticvoicedrvoicelessr̥ /dʒ/ can also be heard as a glide [j] in free variation.
Vowels FrontCentralBackCloseiuMideəoOpena
Vocabulary The following vocabulary exemplifies words in the language. AnalglossAnalglosskhol 'deep hole'; 'social division' ahno 'kind of short skirt'lunguin 'kind of long shawl' zupar 'rice beer'piruili 'elopement' Jol min 'bride price'ithin 'divorce' sinnuperu 'adultery'pakum 'hearth' mote 'first-born'kopu 'second-born' cakhow 'brown rice'khon 'fifty rupees' thunlon 'grave'dao 'kind of iron blade' shingkho 'plate'vopum 'basket' athiru 'kind of bead necklace'akarfo 'kind of China necklace' sanamba 'kind of fiddle'tilli 'kind of flageolet' tuklee 'kind of loom'
References
Bibliography
External links ELAR collection: A community-driven documentation of natural discourse in Anal, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language deposited by Pavel Ozerov Anal DoReCo corpus compiled by Pavel Ozerov. Audio recordings of narrative texts, with transcriptions time-aligned at the phone level and translations.