Bangni-Tagin language

Bangni-Tagin
Native to India
Region Assam
Native speakers
62,897 (2011 census)[1]
Sino-Tibetan
  • Tani
    • Western Tani
      • Subansiri
        • Bangni-Tagin
Dialects
  • Tagin
  • Bangni (incl. Na)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
tgj  Tagin
nbt  Na
njz  Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect)
Glottolog tagi1241  Tagin[2]
naaa1245  Na[3]
bang1338  Bangni, docked to retired code[4]

Tagin (Tagen), also known as West Dafla, and Bangni (incl. Na) are a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India.[5]

Stuart Blackburn states that the 350 speakers of Mra have "always been, wrongly, subsumed under the administrative label of Tagin." It is not clear if Mra is therefore a distinct dialect of Bangni-Tagin, or a different Tani language altogether.

References

  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tagin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Na". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bangni". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. Post, Mark W. (2013). Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, Aug 9.


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