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

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of present-day

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. They are: *

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* Dimasa * Kachari *

Kokborok Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. Its name comes from ''kók'' meaning "verbal" or "language" and ''borok'' meaning "people" or "human", It is one of the anci ...

(Tripuri) *

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The

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language is a recently discovered Boroic language spoken by the

Barman Kacharis The Barman Kacharis are an indigenous community of Northeast India found in Brahmaputra Valley. They are mainly found in the districts of Lower Assam. Barman Kacharis speak an endangered language called as Barman Thar. Since the 2002 Amendment ...

. ''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.

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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

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