Tangkhul Naga languages
The Tangkhul or Tangkul-Naga languages form a small sub-unit of the Kuki-Chin-Naga languages , which belong to the Tibetan-Burman languages , a primary branch of Sinotibetan . The three Tangkhul Naga languages are spoken by 150,000 people in northeast India in the states of Nagaland and Manipur . The largest single language is Tangkhul with 110,000 speakers.
Tangkhul Naga within Sino Tibetan
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Sinotibian
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Tibeto Burmese
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Kuki-Chin-Naga
- Mizo-Kuki-Chin
- Ao-Naga
- Angami Pochuri Naga
- Zeme Naga
- Tangkhul Naga
- Meithei (Manipuri)
- Karbi (Mikir)
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Kuki-Chin-Naga
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Tibeto Burmese
Internal classification and number of speakers
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Tangkhul Naga
- Tangkhul (110 thousand) dialects: Ukhrul (main dialect), Khunggoi, Khangoi, Kupome, Phadang
- Khoibu (25k)
- Maring (15k)
Classification and number of speakers 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.
- Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla: 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)