Editing Hmar language (section)

{{Short description|Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Hmar
| nativename       = Hmar Țawng / Khawsak Țawng
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|hmr|hmar (nasal word uses nose to pronounce)|}} {{Clarify|date=June 2024}}
| states           = India
| region           = [[Mizoram]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-mizoram|title=Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India|date=21 January 2022|website=data.gov.in}}</ref> [[Manipur]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-manipur|title=Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India|date=21 January 2022|website=data.gov.in}}</ref> [[Assam]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-assam|title=Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India|date=21 January 2022|website=data.gov.in}}</ref> [[Tripura]], and [[Meghalaya]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.data.gov.in/resource/population-mother-tongue-2011-meghalaya|title=Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India|date=21 January 2022|website=data.gov.in}}</ref>
| ethnicity        = [[Hmar people|Hmar]]
| speakers         = 98,988
| ref              = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html|title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref>
| familycolor      = Sino-Tibetan
| minority         = 
| iso3             = hmr
| glotto           = hmar1241
| glottorefname    = Hmar
| altname          = 
| fam1             = [[Sino-Tibetan]]
| fam2             = [[Tibeto-Burman]]
| fam3             = [[Central Tibeto-Burman languages|Central Tibeto-Burman]] (?)
| fam4             = [[Kuki-Chin-Naga languages|Kuki-Chin-Naga]]
| fam5             = [[Kuki-Chin languages|Kuki-Chin]]
| fam6             = [[Central Kuki-Chin languages|Central]]
| fam7             = [[Mizo language|Mizoic]]
| fam8             = [[Hmaric languages|Hmaric]]
}}

The '''Hmar language''' ('''Khawsak Țawng''') belongs to the [[Mizo language]] branch of the [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] family of languages. The speakers of this language use [[Mizo language]] as their [[second language]] (L2).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Did you know Hmar is vulnerable? |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/5638 |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=[[Endangered Languages Project|Endangered Languages]] |language=en |quote=... Hmar speakers of Manipur use Manipuri while Assamese and Bengali are used in Assam. Ethnic Hmars living in Mizoram speak Mizo as their first language....}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lisam |first=Khomdan Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6d-IyINtk4C&dq=meitei+language+spoken+hmar&pg=PA561 |title=Encyclopaedia Of Manipur (3 Vol.) |publisher= Gyan Publishing House|year=2011 |isbn=978-81-7835-864-2 |pages=561 |language=en |quote=... They speak Hmar language and converse well in Manipuri (Meiteilon) ...}}</ref>

Hmar is a recognised language in the School curriculum of [[Assam]], [[Manipur]] and [[Mizoram]], and also recently recognised as one of the [[Modern Indian Language]] (MIL) at [[Manipur University]]. Board of Secondary Education, Assam has also included Hmar as an MIL in its matriculation syllabus from 2005. Both [[Manipur University]] and [[Assam University]], Silchar has also permitted Khawsak Hmar language to be studied as Modern Indian Language in the Graduation level.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}