Boroic languages explained

Boroic
Region:	India
Familycolor:	Sino-Tibetan
Fam2:	Tibeto-Burman
Fam3:	Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?)
Fam4:	Sal
Fam5:	Boro–Garo
Glotto:	boro1284
Glottorefname:	Boroic

The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense^[1]) are a group within the Boro-Garo languages which are spoken in and around the Brahmaputra basin, Barak valley and Tripura of present-day northeast India. They are:

• Boro
• Dimasa
• Kachari
• Kokborok (Tripuri)
• Tiwa

The Barman language is a recently discovered Boroic language spoken by the Barman Kacharis.

Ethnologue (21st edition) include Riang and Usoi as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.

Jacquesson (2017:112)^[2] also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.

References

• George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
• Joseph, U.V.; and Burling, Robbins. 2006. Comparative phonology of the Boro Garo languages. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Publication.
• Wood, Daniel Cody. 2008. An Initial Reconstruction of Proto-Boro-Garo. M.A. Thesis, University of Oregon.

External links

• Ethnologue page on Bodo languages
• Ethnologue map of languages of Bangladesh

Notes and References

1. Book: Post . W. . Burling . Robbins . 2017 . The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India . Sino-Tibetan Languages . Graham Thurgood . Randy J. LaPolla . Taylor & Francis.
2. Jacquesson, François and van Breugel, Seino (2017). "The linguistic reconstruction of the past: The case of the Boro-Garo languages." In Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 40, 90-122. [Note: English translation of the French original: Jacquesson, François (2006). ‘La reconstruction linguistique du passé: Le cas des language Boro-Garo’. ''Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris'' 101(1): 273–303.]