{{Short description|Languages of the Hmar people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox language | name = Hmaric languages | nativename = Hmar ṭawnghai | pronunciation = {{IPA|hmr|m̥áːr|}} | states = India | region = Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, Tripura, and Meghalaya | ethnicity = Hmar | speakers = | date= | ref = | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = Kuki-Chin | fam3=Central | fam4=Mizoic | script = Latin | nation = | minority = Assam, Manipur and Mizoram | iso3 = none | glotto = hmar1240 | glottorefname = Hmaric

}} The '''Hmaric languages''' (''Hmar ṭawnghai'') or '''Hmar languages'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 4.7 - Hmaric |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hmar1240 |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref> are a subbranch of the Kukish-Mizo branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family which comprises Hmar proper (Khawsak Țawng/Trawng) Țhiek/Thriek, Saihriem (Faihriem), Leiri, Dulien/Duhlian(a sub-clan of Faihriem) and others.<ref>VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. [https://stedt.berkeley.edu/pubs_and_prods/STEDT_Monograph8_Proto-Kuki-Chin.pdf ''Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages'']. STEDT Monograph 8, p. 50.</ref> The Hmar languages are often treated as dialects of a single language, since differences between them are reportedly minor.<ref>Baruah, Dutta P.N. & V.L.Y. Bapui. 1996. ''Hmar Grammar.'' Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, p. 3: "Different sub-tribes and clans speak different varieties [...] The differences among them, however, are marginal".</ref> The speakers of the language are also known as Hmar.

In Manipur, Hmar exhibits partial mutual intelligibility with the other Kukish dialects of the area including Thadou, Paite, Vaiphei, Simte, Kom and Gangte languages.<ref name=Singh>{{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=Chungkham Yashawanta|title=The linguistic situation in Manipur|journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area|date=1995|volume=18|issue=1|pages=129–134|url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf8/singh1995linguistic.pdf|accessdate=19 June 2014}}</ref>

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