Boroic languages
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Boroic |
| region | India |
| familycolor | Sino-Tibetan |
| fam2 | Tibeto-Burman |
| fam3 | Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?) |
| fam4 | Sal |
| fam5 | Boro–Garo |
| glotto | boro1284 |
| glottorefname | Boroic |
| child1 | Boro |
| child2 | Dimasa |
| child3 | Kachari |
| child4 | Kokborok |
| child5 | Tiwa |
| child6 | Barman |
| :: |
| name = Boroic | altname = | region = India | familycolor = Sino-Tibetan | fam2 = Tibeto-Burman | fam3 = Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?) | fam4 = Sal | fam5 = Boro–Garo | glotto = boro1284 | glottorefname = Boroic | child1 = Boro | child2 = Dimasa | child3 = Kachari | child4 = Kokborok | child5 = Tiwa | child6 = Barman The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense) 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) also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.
Notes
References
- 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.
References
- (2017). "Sino-Tibetan Languages". Taylor & Francis.
- 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.{{doi. 10.1075/ltba.40.1.04van [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.]
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