Milang is a Siangic or Tani language of

Upper Siang district Upper Siang (Pron:/ˈsjæŋ or ˈsɪæŋ/) is an administrative district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is the fourth least populous district in the country (out of 640). History The majority of the people are of the Adi trib ...

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, India. It is spoken in the 3 villages of Milang (Milang: ''Holon''), Dalbing, and Pekimodi (Milang: ''Moobuk Ade''), located in Mariyang Subdivision,

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(Tayeng 1976).

Classification

Milang has traditionally been classified as the most divergent of the

Tani languages Tani (alternatively Miric, ''Adi–Galo–Mising–Nishi-Tagin'' (Bradley 1997), or ''Abor–Miri–Dafla'' (Matisoff 2003)), is a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mostly in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and neighboring regions. Background Th ...

, hence ultimately

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. Post & Blench (2011) reclassified it as Siangic, on the basis of clear correspondences with the

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language in vocabulary that may not ultimately be of Sino-Tibetan origin. The implication is that Milang may, like other Siangic languages, harbour a non-Sino-Tibetan substrate, or may be a non-Sino-Tibetan language with Sino-Tibetan features acquired through prolonged contact, perhaps with the neighbouring and much larger

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tribe, who speak an Eastern Tani language.

References

*Modi, Milorai (2007). ''The Millangs''. Itanagar: Himalayan Publishers. . *Modi, Yankee. 2017. ''The Milang Language: Grammar and Texts''. Ph.D. dissertation,

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. *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. *Tayeng, Aduk (1976). ''Milang phrase-book''. Shillong: The Director of Information and Public Relations, Arunachal Pradesh.

External links

* ELAR archive o
documentation of Milang
Languages of Arunachal Pradesh Tani languages Siangic languages Endangered languages of India {{ArunachalPradesh-stub