Tiwa language

E682370

Tiwa language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Tiwa (Lalung) people of northeastern India, primarily in Assam and Meghalaya.

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Label Occurrences
Tiwa language canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
associatedWithReligion Hinduism NERFINISHED
indigenous Tiwa beliefs
country India
ethnicGroup Lalung people NERFINISHED
Tiwa people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lalung language NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman Tiwa NERFINISHED
hasClassification Sal branch (proposed)
hasContactLanguage Assamese language
Hindi language
Khasi language NERFINISHED
hasDialects Hill Tiwa NERFINISHED
Plains Tiwa NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode tiwa1240
hasISO639-3Code lax
hasLinguisticArea Assam linguistic area
Northeast India linguistic area NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringEthnicGroup Bodo people NERFINISHED
Khasi people NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
isSpokenNear Brahmaputra Valley NERFINISHED
Khasi Hills NERFINISHED
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Assamese language
Bodo language NERFINISHED
Garo language
Khasi language NERFINISHED
region Northeastern India NERFINISHED
spokenBy Lalung people NERFINISHED
Tiwa people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Assam NERFINISHED
India
Meghalaya NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
folk songs
oral tradition
rituals
writingSystem Assamese script
Devanagari script NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tiwa people language Tiwa language