Turung language
| Turung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Assam |
| Ethnicity | Turung people |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2006)[1][2] |
| Eastern Nagari, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | try |
| Glottolog | turu1252 |
The Turung language is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language, closely related to Singpho,[3] spoken in seven villages in central Assam. Many Turung people now speak Assamese.[4][1]
The total population of the ethnic group is over 30,000, and they primarily live in the Jorhat, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam.
Possible Tai language existence
[edit]The ancestors of the modern Turung people possibly spoke a Tai language that was called Turung or Tairong and is now extinct.[5] The modern Turung language is influenced by Tai languages.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Singpho Language of North East India (including Turung) | Endangered Languages Archive". www.elararchive.org. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ↑ "Speakers". Ethnologue. 2022-12-20. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
- ↑ Morey, Stephen (2008). "The Tai Languages of Assam". In Anthony V. N. Diller; Jerold A. Edmondson; Yongxian Luo (eds.). The Tai-Kadai languages. Routledge language family series. Routledge. pp. 207-253 [211].
Turung today is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Jinghpaw sub-family, and is called Turung by its speakers.
- ↑ Morey, Stephen (2008). "The Tai Languages of Assam". In Anthony V. N. Diller; Jerold A. Edmondson; Yongxian Luo (eds.). The Tai-Kadai languages. Routledge language family series. Routledge. pp. 207-253 [211].
- ↑ Morey, Stephen (2004). "The Tai Languages of Assam". The Tai-Kadai Languages. doi:10.4324/9780203641873.
Sources
[edit]- Morey, Stephen. 2005. The Tai languages of Assam: a grammar and texts. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Further reading
[edit]- Konwar, Aparna (2004). "The Tai-Turung language: an analytical study". International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. XXXVI (2): 121–132.
- Morey, Stephen (2010). Turung: A variety of Singpho language spoken in Assam. Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. ISBN 9780858836167.
- Gogoi, Indrani (2024). A Tale of Two Tai Languages A Phonological Account of Tai Turung and Tai Phake (Doctor of Philosophy). Hyderabad: The English and Foreign Languages University. hdl:10603/653861.
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