TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES IN NORTHEAST INDIA

This page covers languages I am fairly certain are Tibeto-Burman. For other ‘North Assam’ languages of more doubtful status see isolates.

Branches	Image	Branches	Image
Bodish		Bodo-Garo
Jingpho		Karbi
Kuki-Chin
Lolo-Burmese		Meithei
Naga		Tani

Bibliography

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Fürer-Haimendorf, C. von. 1950 [1947]. Ethnographic Notes on the Tribes in the Subansiri Region. Shillong: Assam Government Press.

Fürer-Haimendorf, C. von. 1983. Himalayan Adventure: Early travels in North East India. [revision of Fürer-Haimendorf 1955]. New Delhi: Sterling.

Grewal, D. S. 1997. The Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. 2 vols. Delhi: South Asia Publications.

Grierson, Sir G. 1909. The Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 3. Part 1. Tibeto-Burman Family. Tibetan Dialects, the Himalayan Dialects and the North Assam Group. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing.

Jacquesson, F. 1996. Langues Tibeto-Birmanes du Nord-Est de L’Inde: Investigations typologiques en Assam et au Nagaland.” Journal Asiatique 284(1): 159-212.

Jacquesson, F. 2001. Person-marking in TB languages of North-Eastern India. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 24(1): 113-144.

Konow, S. 1902. Notes on the languages spoken between the Assam valley and Tibet. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 127-37.