The Sal languages

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1983 Singapore Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing CompanyJournal:Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, volume 7 (issn: 0731-3500,

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Authors: Burling, Robbins;

doi: 10.32655/ltba.7.2.01 , 10.15144/ltba-7.2.1

handle: 10356/178754

The Sal languages

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Abstract

The sub-classification of the Tibeto-Burman languages has been a subject fraught with considerable mystery. Among all the central and eastern Tibeto-Burman languages, there appear to be only four clear sub-groupings: 1. The Bodo languages of Assam, 2. Manipuri-Mizo-Kuki-Chin, 3. Lola-Burmese, and 4. Karen.' Other subgroup names have been used from time to time, such as "Naga," "Naga-Bodo," "North Assam," and even "Kachin" but these seem to label little more than geographically contiguous groups for which no genuine linguistic reality has been demonstrated. ; Published version

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Singapore

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Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

Keywords

Sal, language description, Arts and Humanities, 400

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