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 | turu1249 |
The Turung language is an endangered Sino-Tibetan language, closely related to Singpho, spoken in seven villages in central Assam. Many Turung people now speak Assamese.[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.[3] The modern Turung language is influenced by Tai languages.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "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 (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.
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