Misings

The Mising people or Miri people ( or ) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group living mostly in the Northeast Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Their Mising language is a part of the Tani languages and the Tibeto-Burman language group. The Misings are a major ethnic group of Assam, the second largest tribe after the Bodos. 15.4% of Assam's tribal population speaks Mising, but many more speak Assamese (24.7%) and Mising organisations estimate that the unofficial Mising population is 1.2 million rather than the 587,310 declared by the 2001 census of India.