Boroic languages
The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense[1]) are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India. They are:
| Boroic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | India |
| Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
| Glottolog | boro1284 |
Ethnologue (21st edition) include Riang and Usoi as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.
Jacquesson (2017:112)[2] also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.
Notes
- Post, W.; Burling, Robbins (2017). "The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India". In Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.). Sino-Tibetan Languages. Taylor & Francis.
- 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.doi:10.1075/ltba.40.1.04van [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.]
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.
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