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Puroik Language
The Puroik language, sometimes known as Sulung, is a language spoken by the Puroik people of Arunachal Pradesh in India and of Lhünzê County, Tibet, in China. Besides their own language, the Puroik also use Nishi, Hindi, and Assamese. Literacy is very low, at about 2%. Those who are literate use either the Bengali script, Devanagari or the Latin alphabet to write Puroik. Geographical distribution Remsangpuia (2008:17) listed a limited number of Puroik villages. Currently, Puroik are seen inhabiting the following districts and circles of Arunachal Pradesh. They also live in Nyishi, Aka, and Miji areas. *East Kameng District: Chayangtajo, Pipu, Pakke Kessang, Lada, Bameng, Seijosa, Seppa, Sawa, Khenewa, and Pipu-Dipu circles (about 70 villages) *Pakke-Kessang District: Pakke-Kessang and Seijosa circles *Kurung Kumey District: Koloriang, Sarli, Damin, Parsi Parlo, Nyapin, Phassang, and Paniasang circles *Kra Daadi District: Palin, Tali, and Pipsorang circles *Papum Pare Dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east, and a disputed border with China in the north at the McMahon Line. Itanagar is the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh is the largest of the Seven Sister States of Northeast India by area. Arunachal Pradesh shares a 1,129 km border with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. As of the 2011 Census of India, Arunachal Pradesh has a population of 1,382,611 and an area of . It is an ethnically diverse state, with predominantly Monpa people in the west, Tani people in the centre, Mishmi and Tai people in the east, and Naga people in the southeast of the state. About 26 major tribes and 100 sub-tribes live in the state. The main tribes of the state are Adi, Nyshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurung Kumey District
Kurung Kumey district (Pron:/kʊˈɹʌŋ kʊˈmi/) is one of the 26 Districts of Arunachal Pradesh, districts of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, with its district headquarters in Koloriang. Origin of name The name of this district is derived from the Kurung and the Kumey, the two principal rivers which flow through it. According to myth the Kurung and the Kumey rivers were two sisters; during the age of marriage Kurung eloped without prior permission from her parents and Kumey got married according to her parents' wishes. Therefore, the Kurung flows with a violent roar and ashy color because her parents shouted and threw ashes after her, while the Kumey flows silently and clearly. History The territory occupied by the present district became part of the North-East Frontier Agency, North East Frontier Tracts in 1914. In 1954, it became part of Subansiri Frontier Division, which was later renamed as Lower Subansiri district. On 1 April 2001, this district was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherdukpen Language
Sherdukpen (autonym: Mey) is a small language of India. It is one of the Kho-Bwa languages.Post, Mark W. and Roger Blench (2011).Siangic: A new language phylum in North East India, ''6th International Conference of the North East India Linguistics Society'', Tezpur University, Assam, India, Jan 31 – Feb 2 There are two distinct varieties, Mey of Shergaon and Mey of Rupa. The name ''Sherdukpen'' comes from the words Shergaon and ''Tukpen'' (the Monpa name for Rupa) (Blench & Post 2011:3). The language is known to speakers as ''Mey nyuk''. Dialects Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary In ''Himalayan Linguistics'', 16(2). list the following dialects of Sherdukpen. *Rupa: spoken in Rupa village and two other main villages, as well as nearby hamlets. Likely around 3,000 speakers. *Shergaon: spoken in Shergaon village. Likely around 1,500 speakers. Locations Sherdukpen is spoken in Shergaon, sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugun Language
Bugun, also known as Khowa, is a small possible language isolate spoken in Arunachal Pradesh state of India by the Bugun. They numbered about 1,700 in 2011. Classification Bugun is classified as a Kho-Bwa language in Blench & Post (2013), although Blench (2015)Blench, Roger. 2015''The Mey languages and their classification'' Presentation given at the University of Sydney. believes Bugun may actually be unrelated to the rest of the Kho-Bwa languages. Dialects Lieberherr & Bodt (2017)Lieberherr, Ismael; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus. 2017Sub-grouping Kho-Bwa based on shared core vocabulary In ''Himalayan Linguistics'', 16(2). list the following Bugun dialects along with their numbers of speakers. *Dikhyang (100 speakers) *Singchung (680 speakers) *Wangho (220 speakers) *Bichom (630 speakers) *Kaspi (80 speakers) *Namphri (180 speakers) Distribution Bugun is spoken in the following villages in southern West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a wide strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese and Boro are the official languages of Assam, while Bengali is an additional official language in the Barak Valley. Assam is known for Assam tea and Assam silk. The state was the first site for oil drilling in Asia. Assam is home to the one-horned Indian rhinoceros, along with the wild water buffalo, pygmy hog, tiger and various species of Asiatic birds, and provides one of the last wild habitats for the Asian elephant. The Assamese economy is aided by wildlife tourism to Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park, which are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Kameng District
East Kameng district is one of districts of Arunachal Pradesh state in northeastern, India. It shares an international border with China in the north and district borders with West Kameng district to the west, Pakke-Kessang district to the south, Kurung Kumey district to the east, Papum Pare district to the southeast. Pakke-Kessang district was bifurcated from East Kameng district on 1 December 2018. History The area around the Kameng river has at various times come under the control and influence of the Mon kingdom, Tibet, and the Ahom kingdom. Aka and Nishi chiefs would exert control over the area whenever no major political powers dominated the area. The Kameng Frontier Division was renamed the Kameng District. The Political Officer was also redesignated as the Deputy Commissioner of Kameng. However, for political reasons, the Kameng district was bifurcated between East Kameng and West Kameng on 1 June 1980. Geography Before the bifurcation, East Kameng district occupi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurung Kumey District
Kurung Kumey district (Pron:/kʊˈɹʌŋ kʊˈmi/) is one of the 26 Districts of Arunachal Pradesh, districts of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, with its district headquarters in Koloriang. Origin of name The name of this district is derived from the Kurung and the Kumey, the two principal rivers which flow through it. According to myth the Kurung and the Kumey rivers were two sisters; during the age of marriage Kurung eloped without prior permission from her parents and Kumey got married according to her parents' wishes. Therefore, the Kurung flows with a violent roar and ashy color because her parents shouted and threw ashes after her, while the Kumey flows silently and clearly. History The territory occupied by the present district became part of the North-East Frontier Agency, North East Frontier Tracts in 1914. In 1954, it became part of Subansiri Frontier Division, which was later renamed as Lower Subansiri district. On 1 April 2001, this district was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kho-Bwa
The Kho-Bwa languages, also known as Bugunish and Kamengic, are a small family of languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India. The name ''Kho-Bwa'' was originally proposed by George van Driem (2001). It is based on the reconstructed words ''*kho'' ("water") and ''*bwa'' ("fire"). Blench (2011) suggests the name ''Kamengic'', from the Kameng area of Arunachal Pradesh, or alternatively ''Bugun–Mey'', after its two main members. Alternatively, Anderson (2014)Anderson, Gregory D.S. 2014. ''On the classification of the Hruso (Aka) language''. Paper presented at the 20th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. refers to Kho-Bwa as Northeast Kamengic. Both Van Driem and Blench group the ''Bugun'' (or ''Khowa''), the ''Mey'' (or ''Sherdukpen''), and the ''Lishpa'' (or ''Lish'') languages. The ''Puroik'' (or ''Sulung'') language is included in the group by Van Driem but treated as a language isolate with no genetic relation to Kamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialect Chain
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be. This is a typical occurrence with widely spread languages and language families around the world, when these languages did not spread recently. Some prominent examples include the Indo-Aryan languages across large parts of India, varieties of Arabic across north Africa and southwest Asia, the Turkic languages, the Chinese languages or dialects, and subgroups of the Romance, Germanic and Slavic families in Europe. Leonard Bloomfield used the name dialect area. Charles F. Hockett used the term L-complex. Dialect continua typically occur in long-settled agrarian populations, as innovations spread from their various points of origin as waves. In this situation, hierarchical classifications of varieties are impractical. Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lhoba People
Lhoba (English translation: ; ; bo, ལྷོ་པ།) is any of a diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in and around Pemako, a region in southeastern Tibet including Mainling, Medog and Zayü counties of Nyingchi and Lhünzê County of Shannan, Tibet. In 1965 the Chinese government officially recognised Lhoba as one of the 56 ethnic groups in China. Lhobas are the smallest ethnic minority in China. Lhobas, with respect to the Chinese perception of Southern Tibet (administered by India as Arunachal Pradesh), have been part of Chinese documentary films and articles. This has been criticised as propaganda by commentators such as Claude Arpi. Etymology Lhoba means "southerners". History The area nowadays inhabited by the modern Lhoba people was known in medieval texts as ''Lhoyü'' (or ''Luoyu'', ''lho-yul'', ལྷོ༌ཡུལ་). Lhoyü is now the name of an area in Tibet, while Lower Lhoyü is part of the Indian state of Arunachal Pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangni Language
Tagin (Tagen), also known as West Dafla and Bangni (incl. Na) is a Sino-Tibetan language Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. ... spoken in India. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, 9 August 2013. Stuart Blackburn states that the 350 speakers of Mra have "always been, wrongly, subsumed under the administrative label of Tagin." It is not clear whether Mra is therefore a distinct dialect of Bangni-Tagin, or a different Tani language altogether. References Languages of Assam Tani languages Languages of Arunachal Pradesh {{st-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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