Karbi

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Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Karbi people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Dumrali Karbi 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
belongsToMacroArea Eurasia NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo other Kuki-Chin–Naga languages
country India
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Karbi people NERFINISHED
glottocode karb1241
hasAlternativeName Arleng NERFINISHED
Mikir NERFINISHED
hasCommunityMedia Karbi-language publications
Karbi-language radio programs
hasDialect Amri dialect NERFINISHED
Chinthong dialect NERFINISHED
Dumrali dialect NERFINISHED
Lumbajong dialect NERFINISHED
Rongkhang dialect
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
phonological studies
sociolinguistic surveys
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal language
hasStandardizationEffort Karbi orthography development
hasWordOrder SOV
hasWritingSystem Assamese script NERFINISHED
Devanagari script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code mjw
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
primaryRegion Karbi Anglong district NERFINISHED
West Karbi Anglong district NERFINISHED
region Northeast India
spokenBy Karbi people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
Assam NERFINISHED
India
Meghalaya NERFINISHED
Nagaland NERFINISHED
subclassOf Kuki-Chin–Naga languages NERFINISHED
Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
usedAs mother tongue of Karbi people
usedIn Karbi cultural practices
folk songs
oral literature
traditional rituals

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