Bodic languages

The Bodic languages ( Bodisch for short ) form a subgroup of the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The approximately 65 Bodic languages ​​are spoken by seven million people in the Himalayan region , mainly in Tibet , North India , Nepal and Bhutan . The most important subgroup of Bodic is the Tibetan languages with over five million speakers, the largest individual languages ​​are Tibetan (4.5 million speakers including the Amdo and Khams varieties) and Tamang , which is spoken by almost a million people in Nepal.

To distinguish the terms Bodisch and Tibetan see the article Tibetan languages .

Classification and subunits

• Sinotibian
  • Tibeto Burmese
    • Bodisch
      • Tibetan
      • Tamang-Ghale
      • Tshangla
      • Takpa (Moinba)
      • Dhimal Toto

literature

• Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages . Brill, Leiden [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 90-04-12424-1 .
• Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus . University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08175-0 .
• Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages . In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages . Oxford University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-520521-9 .
• Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages . Mouton, Berlin [a. a.] 1982, ISBN 90-279-3379-0 .
• James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman . University of California Press, Berkeley [et al. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-520-09843-9 .
• Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 2004, ISBN 3-11-017841-9 .
• Thurgood, Graham & Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages . Routledge, London [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 .
• George van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas . Brill, Leiden [u. a.] 2001, ISBN 90-04-10390-2 .

See also

• Sino-Tibetan languages
• Tibeto-Burmese languages

Web links

• Ernst Kausen, The Classification of the Sino-Tibetan Languages. (DOC; 116 kB)