Digaro | |
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Northern Mishmi | |
Geographic distribution: |
Arunachal Pradesh |
Linguistic classification: | possibly Sino-Tibetan or an independent family |
Subdivisions: | |
Glottolog: | mish1241 |
The Digaro (Digarish) or Northern Mishmi (Mishmic) languages are a small family of possibly Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Mishmi people of southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.
The languages are Idu and Taraon (Digaro, Darang).
They are not related to the Southern Mishmi Midzu languages, apart from possibly being Sino-Tibetan. However, Blench and Post (2011) suggests that they may not even be Sino-Tibetan, but rather an independent language family of their own.
Autonyms and exonyms for Digaro-speaking peoples, as well as Miju (Kaman), are given below (Jiang, et al. 2013:2-3).
Idu, Tawra, Kman, and Meyor all share a system of multiple language registers, which are (Blench 2016):