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unusual facts about Tibeto-Burman languages


Languages of Nepal

Three quarters of the hundred or so languages native to Nepal belong to the Tibeto-Burman language family; this includes Nepal Bhasa (Newar) (the original language of Kathmandu), the Tamang, Magar and various Rai and Limbu languages.


AYX

Nung language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 2,200 people

Boro language

Bodo language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India, official language of Assam state

Chakma

Chakma people, a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India

Chepangic languages

The Chepangic languages, Chepang and Bujhyal (perhaps divergent dialects of a single language), are Tibeto-Burman languages of uncertain affiliation spoken in Nepal.

Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages

A number of language groups in Arunachal Pradesh traditionally considered to be Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman) may in fact constitute independent language families or isolates (Roger Blench 2011).

Damu language

While Sun (1993) clearly identified Damu as a member of the Tani branch of Tibeto-Burman languages, he noted some difficulties that prevented its precise alignment within either Western Tani or Eastern Tani.

Evidentiality

reported, everything else (e.g., Enga, Tauya, Lezgian, Kham, Estonian, Livonian, Tibeto-Burman languages, several South American languages)

Ghe

Southern Ghale language, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; ISO-639-3 code: ghe

Kurtöp language

The Kurtöp language (Dzongkha: ཀུར་ཏོ་པ་ཁ་; Wylie: Kur-to-pa kha; Kurtöpkha, also called Kurtö and Zhâke) is a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family spoken in the Kurtoe Gewog, Lhuntse District, Bhutan.

Languages of South Asia

Most languages spoken in India belong either to the Indo-European (ca. 74%), the Dravidian (ca. 24%), the Austroasiatic (Munda) (ca. 1.2%), or the Tibeto-Burman (ca. 0.6%) families, with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified.

Panglong Conference

Various groups of people migrated south into the Irrawaddy- Chindwin, Sittang and Salween valleys from the China-Tibet region in the latter part of the first millennium, the Mon followed by the Tibeto-Burman and Tai - Shan races.

Scott DeLancey

His work focuses on typology and historical linguistics of Tibeto-Burman languages as well as Plateau Penutian, especially the Klamath language.

Sprachbund

Emeneau specified the tools to establish that language and culture had fused for centuries on the Indian soil to produce an integrated mosaic of structural convergence of four distinct language families: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda and Tibeto-Burman.


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