| Digarish | |
| Also Known As: | Northern Mishmic |
| Region: | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
| Fam1: | possibly Sino-Tibetan or an independent family |
| Fam2: | Greater Siangic ? |
| Child1: | Idu Mishmi |
| Child2: | Taraon |
| Glotto: | mish1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Digarish |
The Digaro (Digarish), Northern Mishmi (Mishmic), or Kera'a–Tawrã[1] languages are a possible small family of possibly Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Mishmi people of southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.
The languages are Idu and Taraon (Digaro, Darang). Lexical similarities are restricted to centain semantic fields, so a relationship between them is doubtful.[2]
They are not related to the Southern Mishmi Midzu languages, apart from possibly being Sino-Tibetan. However, Blench and Post (2011) suggests that they may not even be Sino-Tibetan, but rather an independent language family of their own.
Blench (2014) classifies the Digaro languages as part of the Greater Siangic group of languages.
Autonyms and exonyms for Digaro-speaking peoples, as well as Miju (Kaman), are given below (Jiang, et al. 2013:2-3).
| Kaman name | c=03 | Idu name | c=04 | Assamese name | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taraon people | c=01 | da31 raŋ53 | c=02 | tɕi31 moŋ35 | c=03 | tɑ31 rɑŋ35 | c=04 | Digaru; Digaru Mishmi | |
| Kaman people | c=01 | tɕɑu53 | c=02 | kɯ31 mɑn35 | c=03 | mi31 tɕu55 | c=04 | Midzu | |
| Idu people | c=01 | dju55; dju55 ta31 rɑŋ53; dɑi53 | c=02 | min31 dɑu55; hu53 | c=03 | i53 du55 | c=04 | Chulikata Mishmi | |
| Zha people 扎人 | c=01 | tɕɑ31 kʰen55 | c=02 | tɕɑ31 kreŋ35 | c=03 | — | c=04 | — | |
| Tibetan people | c=01 | lɑ31 mɑ55; mei53 bom55 | c=02 | dɯ31 luŋ35; hɑi35 hɯl55 | c=03 | ɑ31 mi53; pu53; mi31 si55 pu53 | c=04 | — |
Idu, Tawra, Kman, and Meyor all share a system of multiple language registers, which are (Blench 2016):[3]