Mishmi languages

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The Mishmi languages are a small group of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Mishmi people in the eastern Himalayan regions of northeastern India and parts of Tibet and China.

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Mishmi languages canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman languages
language family
arealGrouping Eastern Himalayan languages
associatedReligion Buddhism NERFINISHED
Hinduism NERFINISHED
animism
country China
India
China
surface form: People's Republic of China
ethnicGroupAssociated Digaro Mishmi people NERFINISHED
Idu Mishmi people NERFINISHED
Miju Mishmi people NERFINISHED
geneticClassification Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dengic languages NERFINISHED
Miju-Mishmi languages NERFINISHED
Mishmic languages NERFINISHED
hasDialectContinuum yes
hasMember Darang Deng language NERFINISHED
Digaro Mishmi language NERFINISHED
Idu Mishmi language NERFINISHED
Taraon language NERFINISHED
ISO6393CodeForMember clk (Idu Mishmi) NERFINISHED
mhu (Digaro Mishmi / Darang Deng)
languageBranchStatus small
languageStatus endangered
linguisticResearchStatus underdescribed
neighboringLanguageFamily Bodish languages
Naga languages NERFINISHED
Tani languages
region Anjaw district NERFINISHED
Lohit district NERFINISHED
Lower Dibang Valley district NERFINISHED
spokenBy Mishmi people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Arunachal Pradesh NERFINISHED
China NERFINISHED
Eastern Himalayas NERFINISHED
Northeastern India NERFINISHED
Tibet NERFINISHED
subclassOf Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature agglutinative
tonal
usedIn ritual practices
traditional oral literature
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script (for some materials)
Latin script (for some modern materials)

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Tezu localLanguage Mishmi languages