Hrusian languages

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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

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Hrusian
        • Hruso (Aka, Angka, Tenae) (2,500)
        • Dhimmai (Miji) (3,500)
        • Levai (Bangru) (1,000)

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 .

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