Tiwa language

E682370

Tiwa language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Tiwa (Lalung) people of northeastern India, primarily in Assam and Meghalaya.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tiwa language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
associatedWithReligion Hinduism
indigenous Tiwa beliefs
country India
ethnicGroup Lalung people
Tiwa people
hasAlternativeName Lalung language
Tibeto-Burman Tiwa
hasClassification Sal branch (proposed)
hasContactLanguage Assamese language
Hindi language
Khasi language
hasDialects Hill Tiwa
Plains Tiwa
hasGlottocode tiwa1240
hasISO639-3Code lax
hasLinguisticArea Assam linguistic area
Northeast India linguistic area
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringEthnicGroup Bodo people
Khasi people
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
isSpokenNear Brahmaputra Valley
Khasi Hills
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
neighboringLanguage Assamese language
Bodo language
linked to: Bodo

Garo language
Khasi language
region Northeastern India
linked to: Northeast India
spokenBy Lalung people
Tiwa people
spokenIn Assam
India
Meghalaya
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
writingSystem Assamese script
Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tiwa people language Tiwa language
Tewa language closelyRelatedTo Tiwa language
Bodo–Garo languages hasMember Tiwa language
Garo language closelyRelatedTo Tiwa language
Jonbeel Mela languageContext Tiwa language
Tiwa Autonomous Council languageUsed Tiwa language
Tiwa language Tiwa language
Mayong languageSpoken Tiwa language