Speakers consider themselves to be ethnic Naga people, rather than part of the Kuki and Chin ethnic groups.

Peterson (2017)[3] classifies Purum as part of the Northwestern branch of Kuki-Chin.

According Ethnologue, Purum shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with Kharam.

[4] Purum is spoken in Phaijol, Laikot, Thuisenpai, and Kharam Pallen villages of Senapati district, Manipur (Ethnologue).

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