[citation needed] In Burma, Khamti is spoken by 3,500 near Myitkyina and by 4,500 in Putao District, Kachin State (both reported in 2000).

In India, it is spoken by 5,000 in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, in the Dikrong Valley, Narayanpur, and north bank of the Brahmaputra (reported in 2007).

[4] Mung Kang was captured, a large group of Khamtis moved to the north and east of Lakhimpur.

Common nouns are class categorized by using classifiers such as the generic /an3/, /ko1/ for people and /to1/ for animals.

Khamti prefixes people's names, depending on the social class or status of that person.

[9] Khamti uses a triparte pronoun system, consisting of singular, dual and plural forms.

In 2003 it was again modified with tone marking by scholars of Northern Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh.