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Koireng people

Indigenous people inhabiting Manipur, North-East India

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Koren (Koireng)

"Koireng" written in Meitei script
Total population
2600 (2011 census)
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Koireng language (L1) Meitei language (L2)[1]
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Meitei people, Aimol, Kom, Ranglong

The Koireng people are one of the ethnic groups inhabiting Manipur in North-East India. They speak the [Koireng language]. They are mentioned in the Meitei royal chronicle Cheitharol Kumbaba in the year 1404, one of the oldest tribes to be so mentioned.^[2] They have a shared common ancestry, history, cultural traits, folklore and dialects with their kindred people like Aimol and Kom.^{[citation needed]} They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.^[3]

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• Shakespear, J. (1909) 'The Kuki–Lushai Clans.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 39 (Jul., 1909), pp. 371–385
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131107225208/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf
• Shakespear, J. (1922) Tangkhul Folk Tales and Notes on Some Festivals of the Hill Tribes South of Assam. 14 pp.
• McCulloch/ Major W., 'Account of the valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes'. Selections from the Records of the Government of India, No. 27 (Calcutta) 1859
• Grierson, G. A. (Ed.) (1904b). Tibeto-Burman Family: Specimens of the Kuki-Chin and Burma Groups, # Volume III Part III of Linguistic Survey of India. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta.
• Ethnic Races of Manipur