Mishmi languages

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The Mishmi languages are a small group of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Mishmi people in the eastern Himalayan regions of northeastern India and parts of Tibet and China.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mishmi languages canonical 2
Mishmi language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman languages
language family
arealGrouping Eastern Himalayan languages
associatedReligion Buddhism
Hinduism
animism
country China
India
People's Republic of China
linked to: China
ethnicGroupAssociated Digaro Mishmi people
linked to: Miju Mishmi people

Idu Mishmi people
Miju Mishmi people
geneticClassification Tibeto-Burman
hasAlternativeName Dengic languages
Miju-Mishmi languages
Mishmic languages
hasDialectContinuum yes
hasMember Darang Deng language
linked to: Darang language

Digaro Mishmi language
Idu Mishmi language
Taraon language
ISO6393CodeForMember clk (Idu Mishmi)
linked to: Idu Mishmi

mhu (Digaro Mishmi / Darang Deng)
languageBranchStatus small
languageStatus endangered
linguisticResearchStatus underdescribed
neighboringLanguageFamily Bodish languages
Naga languages
Tani languages
region Anjaw district
Lohit district
Lower Dibang Valley district
spokenBy Mishmi people
linked to: Mishmi tribes
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh
China
Eastern Himalayas
Northeastern India
linked to: Northeast India

Tibet
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative
tonal
usedIn ritual practices
traditional oral literature
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script (for some materials)
Latin script (for some modern materials)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Tezu localLanguage Mishmi languages
Anjaw district hasLocalLanguage Mishmi languages
Digaru Mishmi language subclassOf Mishmi language
linked to: Mishmi languages