Hrusian languages
The Hhrusian languages are a small subgroup of the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The three languages are spoken by 7,000 people in the border area between Arunachal Pradesh, India and Bhutan .
classification
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Hrusian
- Hruso (Aka, Angka, Tenae) (2,500)
- Dhimmai (Miji) (3,500)
- Levai (Bangru) (1,000)
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Hrusian
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Tibeto Burmese
literature
- Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages . Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12424-1 (Tibetan studies library; 2.6).
- Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus . Cambridge 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, London 1990, ISBN 0-7099-3423-8 , pp. 797-810.
- Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages . Mouton, Amsterdam 1982, ISBN 90-279-3379-0 (State of the art report; 14).
- James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman . University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 2003, ISBN 0-520-09843-9 .
- Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Past and present . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-017841-9 (Trends in linguistics; 149).
- Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 .
- George Van Driem: Languages of the Himalayas . Brill, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-04-12062-9 .