#angami

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Angami men, Nagaland, northeast India, 1955🇮🇳

Photo credit: National Geographic

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Angami woman, India, by kohdijinfilms

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2020: Kuozeu Vizo, a 98-year-old Angami Naga woman, recounts the bloody battle between Japanese and British forces that took place in her village during World War II, as her granddaughter sits nearby outside their home in Kohima. To Vizo, the sight of her village bombed and burned black was as spellbinding as a rice field, golden and ripe for harvest. "I still wonder how they even knew which land belonged to whom when they started rebuilding the village," Vizo said. [Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo]

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Tenyidie

What's your native language/dialect? (You can write both its endonym and what it's called in English)

Tenydie

Tell us more about this tongue

Spoken by the angami Naga tribe

Do you use it often? Maybe at home, work or elsewhere

Yes

Can you translate the following in your language? "Hi! I am a speaker of (your language) and I'm proud of my heritage. I believe that preserving and taking pride in one's own mother-tongue is important. Happy International Mother Language Day!"

"Hi! I am a diekepu of tenydie and I'm proud of my heritage. I believe that preserving and taking pride in one's own azo-meta is important. Happy International Azuo Language Day!"

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Khriepra-u Rutsa, an 85-year-old Angami Naga woman, smiles as she speaks about her experiences as a young girl during the war. [Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo]

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2020: Kuou Kesiezie, a 108-year-old Angami Naga survivor of the Battle of Kohima, worked as a British army porter during the war. [Yirmiyan Arthur/AP Photo]