Bodo Konyak Jingpho languages
The Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho languages ( Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho for short ) form a subgroup of the Tibetan-Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The 30 or so languages are spoken by 3.7 million people in northeast India , Nepal , Burma and southern China . Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho consists of three subgroups that form generally recognized genetic units : the Bodo-Koch or Barish, the Konyak-Naga and the Jingpho-Sak or Kachin-Luish. The genetic unit of Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho is confirmed by van Driem 2001, Matisoff 2003 and Thurgood 2003.
Classification and subunits
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
- Bodo-Koch or Barisch (2.3 million speakers)
- Konyak Naga or North Naga (300,000 speakers)
- Jingpho-Sak or Kachin-Luisch (1.1 million speakers)
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Bodo-Konyak-Jingpho
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Tibeto Burmese
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.
- Robbins Burling: The Tibeto-Burman Languages of Northeastern India. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla (Eds.): The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003.
- George Van Driem: Languages of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.
See also
Web links
- Ernst Kausen: The Classification of the Sino-Tibetan Languages. (DOC; 116 kB)