Ao-Naga languages

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The Ao-Naga languages form a subunit of the Kuki-Chin-Naga languages , which belong to the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The ten or so Ao-Naga languages ​​are spoken by 300,000 people in northeast India in the state of Nagaland . The largest single language is Lotha ( Chizima ) with 80,000 speakers.

Ao-Naga within Sino-Tibetan

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Kuki-Chin-Naga
        • Mizo-Kuki-Chin
        • Ao-Naga
        • Angami Pochuri Naga
        • Zeme Naga
        • Tangkhul Naga
        • Meithei (Manipuri)
        • Karbi (Mikir)

Internal classification and number of speakers

  • Ao-Naga
    • Ao-Tengsa
      • Ao-Chungli, Ao-Mongsen, Changki, Longla, Yacham Tengsa ( together 140,000 )
    • Sangtam-Lotha
      • Sangtam (Lophomi, Thukumi) (40 thousand)   dialects: Thukumi, Kizare, Pirr, Phelongre, Photsimi, Purr
      • Yimchungrü (Yachumi) (40 thousand)   Dialects: Yimchungrü, Tikhir, Wai, Chirr, Minir
      • Lotha (Chizima) (80k)   Dialects: Live, Tsontsu, Ndreng, Kyong

Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.

literature

  • Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Brill, Leiden / Boston / Cologne 2002.
  • Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
  • Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. Mouton, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1982.
  • James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. University of California Press, 2003.
  • Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004.
  • Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
  • George Van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.

See also

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