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Kamarupan languages
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Tibeto-Burman language groups
- In Tibeto-Burman languages: The Kamarupan group
The Conspectus assigns the very numerous Tibeto-Burman languages of northeastern India and adjacent regions of Myanmar and Bangladesh to the Kuki-Chin-Naga, Abor-Miri-Dafla (what Shafer called Mirish), and Bodo-Garo (Shafer’s Barish) groups. Several other important languages of this area, including Karbi (Mikir), Meitei (Manipuri),…
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tonality
- In Tibeto-Burman languages: Tones
in Qiangic, Himalayish, and Kamarupan is more varied. These latter groups comprise both tonal and nontonal languages; even the tonal languages among them tend to have systems that are on the rudimentary side, often with only two or three contrasts, or with the tone-bearing unit larger than a single…
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