Nungian languages

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The Nung languages (also Dulong languages , Drung languages , Trung languages or Rawang languages ) form a small subgroup of the Tibetan Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetic . The four languages ​​are spoken by 140,000 people in southern China , northern Myanmar and northeast India .

The most important single language is Rawang (Nung Rawang) with 120,000 speakers, 60,000 of them in India and Burma. The Nung, which gave the subgroup its name, is only spoken by around 800 people, half of whom live in Myanmar and half in China. While in Myanmar they belong to the Nung ethnic group of 6,000, the 400 speakers of the Nung in China are part of the Nu nationality. The most important Nungian language in China, however, is Drung ( Derung ), which is spoken by the Derung (around 7,500 people) and around 8,800 Nu .

Classification and subunits

  • Sinotibian
    • Tibeto Burmese
      • Nungisch
        • Rawang (Nung Rawang, Rawan, Rwan, Ch'opa, Kiuchte) (120,000)
          • Dialects: Hpungsi, Htiselwang, Matwamly, Mutwang, Sertha, Serwang, Wadamkong, Wahke, Taron, Tangsarr,
            Longmi, Zithung; Kunlang
        • Nung (Anung, Anong, Khupang) (800, ethnic 6,000)   Dialects: Cholo, Gwaza, Miko
        • Drung (Trung, Dulong, Tulung, Taron, Kiutse, Kiupa, Kiao) (16,000)   Dialects: Dulong, Nu
        • Norra (Nora, Noza, Nurra) (9,000)   Dialects: Nora, Byabe, Kizolo; lama

Classification, dialects and speaker numbers according to the given web link.

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.
  • Randy J. LaPolla: Dulong. In: Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla (Eds.): The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1129-5 , pp. 674-682.
  • George Van Driem: Languages ​​of the Himalayas. Brill, Leiden 2001.

See also

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