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Digaro, also Taraon, Tawra, or Darang, is a Digarish language of northeastern
Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It share ...
, India and
Zayü County Zayul County ()
KNAB, retrieved 5 July 2021.
Miju Miju may refer to: * Miju language *Miju Mishmi tribe In in Northeastern India, the Miju Mishmi, also known as Kaman or Kammaan, are one of the three tribes of the Mishmi people of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. Members of this tribe are located in ...
) call them ', the Idu call them ', and the
Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...
call them ''Digaro Mishmi''.


Distribution


India

In
Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It share ...
, India, Digaro Mishmi is spoken in
Hayuliang Hayuliang is a town and the headquarters of an eponymous subdivision in the Anjaw district in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
, Changlagam, and
Goiliang Goiliang is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous circle in the Anjaw district in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Goiliang is situated on the bank of the Dau River (or Dav River), a tributary of the Lohit River.
circles in the Amjaw district ('' Ethnologue''). It is also spoken in Dibang Valley district and
Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
.


China

Jiang, et al. (2013:2) reports that in
Zayü County Zayul County ()
KNAB, retrieved 5 July 2021.
* /a/ may also be heard as before /k/.


References

*Evans, Jonathan P.; Manyu, Johakso (2021). "The sounds of Tawrã (Digaru-Mishmi), a Tibeto-Burman language". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 44 (1): 1–26. *Jiang Huo ��获 Li Daqin ��大勤 Sun Hongkai ��宏开 2013. ''A study of Taraon'' ��让语研究 Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House ��族出版社


Further reading

*Blench, Roger. 2017.
A dictionary of Tawrã, a language of Arunachal Pradesh
'. * *Chakravarty, L. N. (1963). ''A Dictionary of the Taraon Language''. NEFA. *Pulu, Jatan (1991). ''A Phrase Book on Taraon Language''. Arunachal Pradesh government. *Sastry, Garimella and Devi Prasada (1984). ''Mishmi Grammar''. CIIL. *Sastry, Garimella and Devi Prasada (1991). ''Mishmi-English-Hindi Dictionary''. CIIL. {{Arunachal languages Digaro languages Mishmi languages Languages of India Languages of Arunachal Pradesh