Boroic languages

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Boroic
Geographic
distribution		 India
Linguistic classification Sino-Tibetan
Subdivisions
  • Boro
  • Dimasa
  • Kachari
  • Kokborok
  • Tiwa
  • Barman
Language codes
Glottolog boro1284

The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense [1] ) are a group within the Boro-Garo languages which are spoken in and around the Brahmaputra basin, Barak Valley and Tripura of present-day northeast India. They are:

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The Barman language is a Boroic language spoken by the Barman Kacharis.

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. ↑ Post, W.; Burling, Robbins (2017). "The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India". In Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.). Sino-Tibetan Languages. Taylor & Francis.
  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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