Turung language

Turung
Native to	India
Region	Assam
Ethnicity	Turung people
Native speakers	1,000 (2006) [1] [2]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sal Jingpho–Luish Jingpho Turung
Writing system	Eastern Nagari, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	try
Glottolog	turu1249

The Turung language is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language, closely related to Singpho, ^[3] spoken in seven villages in central Assam. Many Turung people now speak Assamese. ^{[4] [1]}

The total population of the ethnic group is over 30,000, and they primarily live in the Jorhat, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam.

Possible Tai language existence

The ancestors of the modern Turung people possibly spoke a Tai language that was called Turung or Tairong and is now extinct. ^[5] The modern Turung language is influenced by Tai languages.

References

1. "Singpho Language of North East India (including Turung) | Endangered Languages Archive". www.elararchive.org. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
2. "Speakers". Ethnologue. 2022-12-20. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
3. Morey, Stephen (2008). "The Tai Languages of Assam". In Anthony V. N. Diller; Jerold A. Edmondson; Yongxian Luo (eds.). The Tai-Kadai languages. Routledge language family series. Routledge. pp. 207-253 [211]. Turung today is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Jinghpaw sub-family, and is called Turung by its speakers.
4. Morey, Stephen (2008). "The Tai Languages of Assam". In Anthony V. N. Diller; Jerold A. Edmondson; Yongxian Luo (eds.). The Tai-Kadai languages. Routledge language family series. Routledge. pp. 207-253 [211].
5. Morey, Stephen (2004). "The Tai Languages of Assam". The Tai-Kadai Languages. doi:10.4324/9780203641873.

Sources

• Morey, Stephen. 2005. The Tai languages of Assam: a grammar and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Further reading

• Konwar, Aparna (2004). "The Tai-Turung language: an analytical study". International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. XXXVI (2): 121–132.
• Morey, Stephen (2010). Turung: A variety of Singpho language spoken in Assam. Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. ISBN   9780858836167.
• Gogoi, Indrani (2024). A Tale of Two Tai Languages A Phonological Account of Tai Turung and Tai Phake (Doctor of Philosphy). Hyderabad: The English and Foreign Languages University. hdl:10603/653861.