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Mongsen Ao is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Ao of Nagaland in northeast India. Conventionally classified as Naga the Ao languages are not clearly related to other Naga languages. Gordon (2005) estimates that there are 141000 speakers of Mongsen and Chungli Ao.Missionary grammars from the late 19th century exist. A grammatical description is Gowda (1975). Coupe (2003) is one of the few acoustic studies published on a Kuki-Chin-Naga language (only three exist).
