Indo-Burma linguistic area

E820056

Sprachbund linguistic area

The Indo-Burma linguistic area is a geographically defined region of South and Southeast Asia where diverse languages, especially from Tibeto-Burman and related families, have converged and shared structural features through long-term contact.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Sprachbund ⓘ linguistic area ⓘ
characterizedBy	areal diffusion of linguistic features ⓘ long-term language contact ⓘ structural convergence ⓘ
hasFeature	agglutinative morphology in many languages ⓘ clause-final particles in many languages ⓘ complex verb morphology in many Tibeto-Burman languages ⓘ elaborate classifier systems in some languages ⓘ phonemic register or voice quality contrasts in some languages ⓘ postpositions rather than prepositions in many languages ⓘ shared patterns of differential object marking in some languages ⓘ shared patterns of evidentiality in some languages ⓘ shared patterns of verb serialization in some languages ⓘ tone in many Tibeto-Burman and Tai languages ⓘ verb-final word order in many languages ⓘ
hasLanguage	Assamese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Bangla language NERFINISHED ⓘ Bodo language NERFINISHED ⓘ Burmese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Jingpho language NERFINISHED ⓘ Karbi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Khasi language NERFINISHED ⓘ Kuki-Chin languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Meitei language NERFINISHED ⓘ Naga languages ⓘ Tai languages of Northeast India NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Austroasiatic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Dravidian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Hmong-Mien languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Tai-Kadai languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMajorLanguageFamily	Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasProcess	borrowing of grammatical morphemes across language families ⓘ lexical borrowing across unrelated languages ⓘ
hasSociohistoricalContext	multilingualism and ethnic diversity ⓘ
hasTemporalProperty	formed through millennia of language contact ⓘ
locatedIn	Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ China ⓘ Indo-Burmese borderlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar NERFINISHED ⓘ Northeast India ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ
relatedConcept	South Asian linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asian linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedInField	areal linguistics ⓘ contact linguistics ⓘ

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Manipuri → belongsTo → Indo-Burma linguistic area ⓘ