The Naga–Maring languages are a putative small family of
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan (also referred to as Trans-Himalayan) is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. Around 1.4 billion people speak a Sino-Tibetan language. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 ...
spoken in eastern Manipur of northeast
India
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and Southwestern Sagaing in Myanmar. Conventionally classified as "Naga", they are not clearly related to other
Naga languages
The Naga languages are a geographic and ethnic grouping of Tibeto-Burman, spoken mostly by Naga peoples.
Konyak languages, Northern Naga languages do not fall within the group, in spite of being spoken by Naga groups; instead, these form part ...
, and are conservatively classified as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan, pending further research.
Languages
Tangkhulic languages include:
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Tangkhul
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Somra
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Akyaung Ari
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Kachai
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Huishu
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Tusom
The
Maringic languages are:
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Maring
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Uipo
References
* George van Driem (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill.
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