Digaro languages

Digaro languages
Digaro
Northern Mishmi
Geographic
distribution:
Arunachal Pradesh
Linguistic classification: Sino-Tibetan
Subdivisions:
Taraon

The Digaro or Northern Mishmi languages are a small family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Mishmi people of Tibet.

The languages are Idu and Taraon (Digaro, Darang).

They are not related to the Southern Mishmi Midzu languages apart from being Tibeto-Burman.

References

  • George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.



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