Boroic languages
(Redirected from Bodo languages)
| Boroic | |
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| Geographic distribution | India |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
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| Glottolog | boro1284 |
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The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense[1]) are a group within the Boro-Garo languages which are spoken in and around the Brahmaputra basin, Barak Valley and Tripura of present-day northeast India. They are:
The Barman language is a Boroic language spoken by the Barman Kacharis.
Ethnologue (21st edition) include Riang and Usoi as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.
Jacquesson (2017:112)[2] also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.
Notes
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- ^ Jacquesson, François and van Breugel, Seino (2017). "The linguistic reconstruction of the past: The case of the Boro-Garo languages." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 40, 90-122.Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [Note: English translation of the French original: Jacquesson, François (2006). ‘La reconstruction linguistique du passé: Le cas des language Boro-Garo’. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 101(1): 273–303.]
References
[edit | edit source]- George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
- Joseph, U.V.; and Burling, Robbins. 2006. Comparative phonology of the Boro Garo languages. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Publication.
- Wood, Daniel Cody. 2008. An Initial Reconstruction of Proto-Boro-Garo. M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon.
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[edit | edit source]Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East and Southeast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates, Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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