Bodo languages

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Bodo
Boro
Geographic
distribution
India
Linguistic classification Sino-Tibetan
Glottolog boro1284 [1]

The Bodo languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India. They are:

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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

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Boroic". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. 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.]

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