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