Konyak Naga languages

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The Konyak Naga languages - also Konyak languages or North Naga languages - form a sub-unit of the Bodo Konyak Jingpho languages , which belong to the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The seven Konyak Naga languages ​​are spoken by approximately 300,000 people in northeast India in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland . The largest single language is Konyak with 105,000 speakers. The Konyak-Naga is divided into Konyak and Tangsa-Nocte .

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

  • Konyak Naga or North Naga
    • Konyak
      • Konyak (105 thousand)   Main dialect: Tableng
      • Wancho (Banpara) (45k)
      • Phom (Tamlu, Chingmengnu) (35k)
      • Khiamngan (25k)
      • Chang (Mojung) (30k)
    • Tangsa-Nocte
      • Tangas (Tase) (15 th.)
      • Nocte (Namsangia) (35k)

Classification and number of speakers according to the given web link.

See also

literature

Konyak Naga languages

  • Robbins Burling: The Tibeto-Burman Languages ​​of Northeastern India. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Past and Present . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 , pp. 169-191.

Tibeto Burmese

  • Christopher I. Beckwith (Ed.): Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages. Proceedings of a symposium, held in Leiden, June 26, 2000 . Brill, Leiden 2002, ISBN 90-04-12424-1 .
  • Paul K. Benedict: Sino-Tibetan. A Conspectus. (= Studies in Chinese Linguistics. Volume 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-11807-7 .
  • Scott DeLancey: Sino-Tibetan Languages. In: Bernard Comrie (Ed.): The World's Major Languages. Oxford University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-520521-9 , pp. 797-810.
  • Austin Hale: Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages. (= Trends in Linguistics. Volume 14). Mouton, Amsterdam 1982, ISBN 90-279-3379-0 .
  • James A. Matisoff: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman. System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibaten reconstruction. (= Publications in Linguistics. Volume 135). University of California Press, Berkeley 2003, ISBN 0-520-09843-9 .
  • Anju Saxena (Ed.): Himalayan Languages. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017841-9 .
  • Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Past and Present . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 .
  • George Van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas. An ethnolinguistic handbook of the greater Himalayan Region. (= Handbook of Oriental Studies / 2nd Volume 10). Brill, Leiden 2001, ISBN 90-04-10390-2 .

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