Bodo Koch languages
The Bodo-Koch languages - also Bodo-Garo languages or Baric languages - form a sub-unit of the Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho languages , which belong to the Tibetan-Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The eleven Bodo Koch languages are spoken by 2.3 million people in northeast India in the state of Assam and in neighboring Bangladesh . The largest individual languages are Kokborok or Tripuri with 800,000, Bodo or Boro with 600,000 and Garo with 700,000 speakers. The Bodo-Koch is divided into Bodo-Garo and Koch and the individual language Chutiya.
Bodo cook within Sino-Tibetan
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
- Bodo cook (Barisch)
- Konyak Naga (North Naga)
- Jingpho-Sak (Kachin-Luish)
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
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Tibeto Burmese
Internal classification and number of speakers
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Bodo-Koch or Barisch
- Chutiya (Deori, Deuri) (27,000 speakers, ethnic 50,000)
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Bodo-Garo
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Bodo
- Kokborok (Tripuri) (800,000) dialects: Debbarma (main dialect), Noatia, Jamatia, Halam
- Bodo (Boro, Meche) (600,000)
- Dimasa (105,000)
- Kachari (55,000)
- Tiwa (Lalung, Dowyan) (25,000)
- Garo (700,000) dialects: A'beng, A'chik, A'we, Chisak, Dacca, Ganching, Kamrup, Matchi, Megam
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Bodo
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cook
- Koch (35,000) dialects: Banai = Pani, Wanang, Harigaya, Satpariya, Inkkiya
- Rabha (30,000) dialects: Maitaria, Rangdania
- A'tong
- Ruga almost †
Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.
literature
Bodo Koch languages
- Robbins Burling: The Tibeto-Burman Languages of Northeastern India. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
- Robbins Burling: Garo. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
Tibeto Burmese
- 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.