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The Karbis linguistically belong to the Tibeto-Burman group. The original home of the various people speaking Tibeto-Burman languages was in western China near the Yang-Tee-Kiang and the Howang-ho rivers and from these places, they went down the courses of the Brahmaputra, the Chindwin, and the Irrawaddy and entered India and Burma.
The Tibeto-Burman languages of south-west China have been heavily influenced by Chinese over a long period, leaving their affiliations difficult to determine. The grouping of the Bai language , with one million speakers in Yunnan, is particularly controversial, with some workers suggesting that it is a sister language to Chinese.
Scott DeLancey (2015) [3] considers Kuki-Chin–Naga to be part of a wider Central Tibeto-Burman group. The following is a preliminary internal classification of the Kuki-Chin–Naga languages by Hsiu (2021).
The second group of people to reach Assam are considered to be speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages. [34] [35] The first Tibeto-Burman speakers started coming into Assam some time before three thousand years ago from the north and the east. [15] [36] And they have continued coming into Assam till the present times. [34]
The term Bodo finds its first mention in the book by Hodgson in 1847, to refer to the Mech and Kachari peoples. [9] [10] Grierson took this term Bodo to denote a section of the Assam-Burma group of the Tibeto-Burman languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, [11] which included the languages of (1) Mech; (2) Rabha; (3) Lalung (Tiwa); (4) Dimasa (Hills Kachari); (5) Garo (6) Tiprasa (7) Deuri (8 ...
The name "Tibeto-Burman" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Richardson Logan, who added Karen in 1858. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The third volume of the Linguistic Survey of India , edited by Sten Konow , was devoted to the Tibeto-Burman languages of British India .
The Mizo people, historically known as the Lushais, [c] are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group native to the state of Mizoram in India and neighbouring states (such as Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya) of Northeast India. They speak the Tibeto-Burman language of Mizo, the official language and lingua franca of Mizoram
However, their history can still be traced back as far as 900 AD since there are place names in traditional songs that reveal the time period they were composed. There are also local folk tale and legends. These people are from a Tibeto-Burman group and are familiar with all other Chin groups. They have their own written language which is ...