Konyak is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Konyak people in the state of Nagaland, north-eastern India.

The language has  speakers in the state (as of the 2011 census); most of these () are in Mon district, with smaller populations in the districts of Dimapur (), Kohima (), Mokokchung (), and Longleng (). There are also an estimated 2,000 speakers in neighbouring Myanmar, specifically in Hkamti District and in Lahe township.

Dialects

Konyak (2021)
A list of Konyak dialects from Hoipo Konyak (2021:5) is given below.

Ethnologue
Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Konyak.

Tableng is the standard dialect spoken in Wanching and Wakching.

Phonology 
There are three lexically contrastive contour tones in Konyak – rising (marked in writing by an acute accent – á), falling (marked by a grave accent – à) and level (unmarked).

Vowels 

The vowels ,  and  are lengthened before approximants.  does not occur finally.

Consonants 

The stops  and  contrast with the aspirated  and .  and  become voiced intervocalically across morpheme boundaries. The dental  is realised as an alveolar if preceded by a vowel with a rising tone. The approximants  and  are pronounced laxer and shorter after vowels;  becomes tenser initially before high vowels. If  morpheme-initial or intervocalic,  is pronounced with audible friction. , , , , ,  and  do not occur morpheme-finally, while  does not appear morpheme-initially. Except for morpheme-initial  and , consonant clusters occur only medially.

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Further reading 

Languages of Nagaland
Sal languages
Endangered languages of India