Bodo Koch languages

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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

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
        • Bodo cook (Barisch)
        • Konyak Naga (North Naga)
        • Jingpho-Sak (Kachin-Luish)

Internal classification and number of speakers

  • Bodo-Koch or Barisch
    • Chutiya (Deori, Deuri) (27,000 speakers, ethnic 50,000)
    • Bodo-Garo
      • 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
    • 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.

Web links