Endangered Languages Project - Hill Miri

Hill Miri

^{[alias Miri, Sarak]}

Klassifizierung: Sino-Tibetan

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bedroht

Alias		Miri, Sarak
KLASSIFIZIERUNG		Sino-Tibetan, Tani
DOWNLOAD		Als csv
WEITERE KOMMENTARE		Though Hili Miri is listed under Mising [mrg] in Ethnologue, most experts on the Aranuchal Pradesh and Tani languages treat Hill Miri and Mising as separate and distinct languages belonging to different branches of the Tani subgroup (Burling 2003; Sun 2003, 1993).

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Informationen von: “Islamic Inner Asia” . Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (2014)

Bedroht

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~10,000
Muttersprachler weltweit

DATUM DER INFORMATION: 2008

VERBREITUNG

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

"Hill Miri [mrg] is widely spoken by all but the school-age generation of children, who appear to have abandoned the language in at least some villages."

ORTE: India

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Spoken in the hilly area of central Arunachal Pradesh

Gefährdet

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
12,000 (fieldwork estimate)
Muttersprachler weltweit

ORTE: India

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Assam, mostly Lakhimpur, Sonitpur and Dhemaji districts; some speakers also live across the border in Arunachal Pradesh.

Bedroht

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~ 9,000
Muttersprachler weltweit

ORTE: India

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG: Spoken just east of the Apatani Area

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INFORMATIONEN ZUM ORT

KOORDINATEN

26.9612, 94.0539

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Informationen von: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing