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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Language family of Tibet and northeast India}}<br />
{{Infobox language family<br />
|name=Digaro<br />
|altname=Northern Mishmi<br />
|region=[[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|fam1=possibly [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]] or an independent family<br />
|fam2=[[Greater Siangic languages|Greater Siangic]] ?<br />
|child1=[[Idu Mishmi language|Idu Mishmi]]<br />
|child2=[[Taraon language|Taraon]]<br />
|glotto=mish1241<br />
|glottorefname=Digarish<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Digaro''' (Digarish), '''Northern Mishmi''' (Mishmic), or '''Kera'a–Tawrã'''<ref name="WOL-MSEA-12">{{cite book|last=DeLancey|first=Scott|title=The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia|chapter=Classifying Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages|publisher=De Gruyter|date=2021|doi=10.1515/9783110558142-012|pages=207–224|isbn=9783110558142|s2cid=238722139}}</ref> languages are a small family of possibly [[Sino-Tibetan languages]] spoken by the [[Mishmi people]] of southeastern [[Tibet]] and [[Arunachal Pradesh]].<br />
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The languages are [[Idu language|Idu]] and [[Taraon language|Taraon]] (Digaro, Darang).<br />
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==External relationships==<br />
They are not related to the Southern Mishmi [[Midzu languages]], apart from possibly being Sino-Tibetan. However, Blench and Post (2011) suggests that they may not even be Sino-Tibetan, but rather an independent language family of their own.<br />
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Blench (2014) classifies the Digaro languages as part of the [[Greater Siangic languages|Greater Siangic]] group of languages.<br />
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==Names==<br />
Autonyms and exonyms for Digaro-speaking peoples, as well as [[Miju language|Miju]] (Kaman), are given below (Jiang, et al. 2013:2-3).<br />
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{| class="wikitable IPA"<br />
|+Names of Mishmi peoples<br />
! <br />
!c=01| [[Digaro Mishmi language|Taraon]] name<br />
!c=02| [[Miju language|Kaman]] name<br />
!c=03| [[Idu Mishmi language|Idu]] name<br />
!c=04| [[Assamese language|Assamese]] name<br />
|-<br />
! [[Digaro Mishmi language|Taraon]] people<br />
|c=01| da31 raŋ53<br />
|c=02| tɕi31 moŋ35<br />
|c=03| tɑ31 rɑŋ35<br />
|c=04| Digaru; <br />Digaru Mishmi<br />
|-<br />
! [[Miju language|Kaman]] people<br />
|c=01| tɕɑu53<br />
|c=02| kɯ31 mɑn35<br />
|c=03| mi31 tɕu55<br />
|c=04| Midzu<br />
|-<br />
! [[Idu Mishmi language|Idu]] people<br />
|c=01| dju55; <br />dju55 ta31 rɑŋ53; <br />dɑi53<br />
|c=02| min31 dɑu55; <br />hu53<br />
|c=03| i53 du55<br />
|c=04| Chulikata Mishmi<br />
|-<br />
! Zha people 扎人<br />
|c=01| tɕɑ31 kʰen55<br />
|c=02| tɕɑ31 kreŋ35<br />
|c=03| —<br />
|c=04| —<br />
|-<br />
! [[Tibetic languages|Tibetan]] people<br />
|c=01| lɑ31 mɑ55; <br />mei53 bom55<br />
|c=02| dɯ31 luŋ35; <br />hɑi35 hɯl55<br />
|c=03| ɑ31 mi53; <br />pu53; <br />mi31 si55 pu53<br />
|c=04| —<br />
|}<br />
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==Registers==<br />
[[Idu language|Idu]], [[Taraon language|Tawra]], [[Miju language|Kman]], and [[Zakhring language|Meyor]] all share a system of multiple language registers, which are (Blench 2016):<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.academia.edu/20110685| title = (PDF) Mishmi language development {{!}} Roger Blench - Academia.edu}} </ref><br />
#ordinary speech<br />
#speech of hunters: lexical substitution, the replacement of animal names and others by special lexical forms, and sometimes short poems<br />
#speech of priests/shamans: more complex, involving much language which is difficult to understand, and also lengthy descriptions of sacrificial animals<br />
#poetic/lyrical register (not in [[Idu language|Idu]], but appears in [[Miju language|Kman]])<br />
#mediation register (only in [[Idu language|Idu]]?)<br />
#babytalk register<br />
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==References==<br />
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* [[Roger Blench|Blench, Roger]] (2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526230734/http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/South%20Asia/NEI/General/Lingres/Declassifying%20Arunachal.pdf ''(De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence'']<br />
* Blench, Roger (2014). ''[https://www.academia.edu/8136744/Fallen_leaves_blow_away_a_neo-Hammarstromian_approach_to_Sino-Tibetan_classification Fallen leaves blow away: a neo-Hammarstromian approach to Sino-Tibetan classification]''. Presentation given at the University of New England, Armidale, 6 September 2014.<br />
* Blench, Roger. 2017. [https://www.academia.edu/31295058/The_Mishmi_languages_Idu_Tawra_and_Kman_a_mismatch_between_cultural_and_linguistic_relations The ‘Mishmi’ languages, Idu, Tawra and Kman: a mismatch between cultural and linguistic relations].<br />
* Jiang Huo [江获], Li Daqin [李大勤], Sun Hongkai [孙宏开] (2013). ''A study of Taraon'' [达让语研]. Beijing: Ethnic Publishing House [民族出版社]. {{ISBN|9787105129324}}<br />
* [[George van Driem|van Driem, George]] (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill.<br />
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