The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense
) are a group of
Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India. They are:
*
Boro
*
Dimasa
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Kachari
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Kokborok (Tripuri)
*
Tiwa
The
Barman language is a recently discovered Boroic language spoken by the
Barman Kacharis
The Barman Kacharis are an indigenous community of Northeast India and are a subsection of the Dimasa people in Barak Valley but claim to a separate group in Brahmaputra Valley. They are mainly found in the districts of Lower Assam and in Barak ...
.
''Ethnologue'' (21st edition) include ''Riang'' and ''Usoi'' as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.
Jacquesson (2017:112)
[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. [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.]] 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.
External links
Ethnologue page on Bodo languagesEthnologue map of languages of Bangladesh
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