The Baram–Thangmi languages,
Baram and
Thangmi are
Tibeto-Burman languages
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non- Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia. Around 60 million people sp ...
spoken in Nepal. They are classified as part of the
Newaric branch by van Driem (2003) and Turin (2004), who view
Newar
Newar (; new, नेवार, endonym: Newa; new, नेवा, Pracalit script:) or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisat ...
as being most closely related to Baram–Thangmi.
They were formerly classified as part of
Mahakiranti by
George van Driem
George "Sjors" van Driem (born 1957) is a Dutch linguist associated with the University of Bern, where he is the chair of Historical Linguistics and directs the Linguistics Institute.
Education
* Leiden University, 1983–1987 (PhD, ''A Grammar ...
(2001), who later retracted the hypothesis in van Driem (2003).
See also
*
Baram-Thangmi comparative vocabulary list (Wiktionary)
References
* van Driem, George. 2001. ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Leiden: Brill.
* van Driem, George. 2003. ‘Mahakiranti revisited: Mahakiranti or Newaric?’, pp. 21-26 in Tej Ratna Kansakar and Mark Turin, eds., Themes in Himalayan Languages and Linguistics. Kathmandu: South Asia Institute, Heidelberg and Tribhuvan University.
* Turin, Mark. 2004. Newar-Thangmi Lexical Correspondences and the linguistic classification of Thangmi. ''Journal of Asian and African Studies'' 68: 97-120.
*Turin, Mark. 2011. A Grammar of the Thangmi Language: With an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture. (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 6.) Leiden: Brill
*Kansakar, Tej Ratna; Yogendra Prasad Yadava; Krishna Prasad Chalise; Balaram Prasain; Dubi Nanda Dhakal; Krishna Paudel. 2011
A sociolinguistic study of the Baram language ''Himalayan Linguistics'' 10: 187-225.
ontains basic word list of Baram, Thangmi, Newar, and Chepang.
Mahakiranti languages
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