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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.
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 .
There are two dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and the Bhutanese Sign Language. [1] Dzongkha , the national language, is the only native language of Bhutan with a literary tradition, though Lepcha and Nepali are literary languages in other countries ...
Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. [4] Its name comes from kók meaning "verbal" or "language" and borok meaning "people" or "human", [ citation needed ] It is one of the ancient languages of Northeast India .
The Tibetic languages belong to the Tibeto-Burman language group. The traditional or mythological explanation of the Tibetan people's origin is that they are the descendants of the human Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa and rock ogress Ma Drag Sinmo.
Similarly, David Bradley (2008) [2] proposes an Eastern Tibeto-Burman branch that includes Burmic (a.k.a. Lolo-Burmese) and Qiangic. Bradley notes that Lolo-Burmese and Qiangic share some unique lexical items, even though they are morphologically quite different; whereas all Lolo-Burmese languages are tonal and analytical, Qiangic languages are ...
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). [4]
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]