The Tangkhulic and Tangkhul languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mostly in northeastern Manipur , India . Conventionally classified as "Naga," they are not clearly related to other Naga languages , and (with Maringic) are conservatively classified as an independent Tangkhul–Maring branch of Tibeto-Burman, pending further research.
3-454: The Maringic languages appear to be closely related to the Tangkhulic family, but not part of it. Tangkhulic languages include: The Tangkhulic languages are not particularly close to each other. Suansu , Challow , and Kongai were only documented starting from 2019. Brown's "Southern Tangkhul" ( Southern Luhupa ?) is a Kuki-Chin rather than Tangkhulic language. It has strong links with
6-498: The Tangkhulic languages as follows. Proto-Tangkhulic, the reconstructed ancestral proto-language of the Tangkhulic languages, has been reconstructed by Mortensen (2012). Mortensen (2003:5-7) lists the following phonological innovations ( sound changes ) from Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) to Proto-Tangkhulic. Proto-Tangkhulic also has the nominalizing prefix * kV -. Proto-Tangkhulic lexical innovations are: Maringic languages Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-613: The recently discovered Sorbung language , which is also not Tangkhulic despite being spoken by ethnic Tangkhul. some northern villages ( Chingjaroi , Jessami , Soraphung Razai) in Tangkhul area have language more closely related to the Angami-Pochuri language group. Koki , Long Phuri , Makuri , and Para are "Naga" languages spoken in and around Leshi Township , Myanmar. These four languages could possibly classify as Tangkhulic languages or Ao languages . Mortensen (2003:5) classifies
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