Talk:Tanchangya language

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Article Issues

Verifiability

This article is in need of a serious overhaul. Of the four unique sources, one (Ethnologue) requires a paid subscription and the other is self-published and the other by Phukan is self-published. Anything contradicting Ethnologue or Glottolog classification should be immediately verifiable through peer-reviewed sources before inclusion, as it's notable enough that multiple sources would be expected.

Classification

Both Ethnologue and Glottolog cite Tanchangya as Indo-European and a language cannot belong to both Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European families. Terms cited as "Ancient Tanchangya language" are of questionable relevance. It's unclear if these terms are being argued as a substrate or as something else.

It's also inaccurate to say that the gap between Sanskrit and Pāḷi rendered the words "almost untraceable". Some forms cited such as 'manus' for 'man' appear to be tatsama while others are obvious tadbhava with regular sound correspondences.

The presence of phonemic tone is also not indicative of Tibeto-Burman origin. Numerous languages in the region, such as Rohingya, Sylheti, and some Eastern Bengali dialects have had tone arise from glottal features. The chart describing terms of Tibeto-Burman origin is insufficient to establish affiliation. Religious terminology is especially susceptible to being loaned and is inappropriate to use to establish lineage.

Copy Editing

The grammar, spelling, and cohesion of this article are in need complete review. While writing this article in South Asian English would be appropriate, the conventions used in this article do not adhere to established convention.

It's also unclear why lexical items are written in Bengali-Assamese script if the script cited as being used for the language is Tanchangya.

EricTheLinguist (talk) 00:05, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a Bangladeshi, with ties to the CHT. in CHT alot of ethnic groups have their own scripts, Tanchangya and chakma use the Chakma script, Marma use the Burmese script. But these are pretty much reserved for Chakma or Marma classes at schools (Tanchangya isn't taught at schools yet) and religious use, along side being used rarely in day to day life. Mostly everything is written in Bengali script or sometimes even latin. ইজিয়ান (talk) 09:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]