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{{Infobox language family<br />
|name=Greater Siangic<br />
|acceptance=proposed<br />
|region=[[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan<br />
|family=[[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]]? or an independent family<br />
|child1=[[Siangic languages|Siangic]]<br />
|child2=[[Digaro languages|Digaro]]<br />
|child3=[[Tani languages|Tani]]<br />
|glotto2=macr1268<br />
|glottorefname2=Macro-Tani<br />
|glotto3=mish1241<br />
|glottorefname3=Digarish<br />
}}<br />
'''Greater Siangic''' is a language grouping that includes the ''[[Siangic languages]]'', ''[[Digaro languages]]'' ([[Idu Mishmi language|Idu Mishmi]] and [[Taraon language|Taraon]]) and ''Pre-[[Tani languages|Tani]]'', the hypothetical [[stratum (linguistics)|substrate]] language branch of Tani before it became relexified by Sino-Tibetan. The Greater Siangic grouping was proposed by [[Roger Blench]] (2014), based on exclusively shared lexical items that had been noted by Modi (2013).<ref name="Modi2013"/> Blench (2014) argues that Greater Siangic is an independent language family that has undergone areal influences from [[Sino-Tibetan languages]], and is not a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family itself.<br />
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Various lexical items exclusively shared by Milang, Koro, Taraon, and Idu have also been noted by Modi (2013).<ref name="Modi2013">Modi, Yankee. 2013. ''The nearest relatives of the Tani group''. Paper presented at the 19th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Canberra, Australia.</ref> Modi (2013) suggests that Taraon could be closer to Milang than Idu is.<br />
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==Languages==<br />
Blench (2014) lists the following languages in Greater Siangic.<br />
;Greater Siangic<br />
*Pre-[[Tani languages|Tani]]<br />
*[[Idu Mishmi language|Idu]]-[[Taraon language|Taraon]]<br />
*[[Siangic languages|Siangic]]<br />
**[[Koro language (India)|Koro]]<br />
**[[Milang language|Milang]]<br />
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==Sound correspondences==<br />
Modi (2013: 20-22)<ref name="Modi2013"/> notes the following sound correspondences among Milang, Taraon, Idu, and Proto-Tani.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Milang !! Taraon !! Idu !! Proto-Tani<br />
|-<br />
| -u || -a || -a || *-o<br />
|-<br />
| h- || s- || || <br />
|-<br />
| C- || Cl- || Cr- || <br />
|-<br />
| c- || t- || t- || <br />
|}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Wiktionary:Appendix:Greater Siangic comparative vocabulary list|Greater Siangic comparative vocabulary list]] (Wiktionary)<br />
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==References==<br />
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* 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 />
* Post, Mark W. and Roger Blench (2011). "[https://jamescook.academia.edu/MarkWPost/Talks/33486/Siangic_A_new_language_phylum_in_North_East_India Siangic: A new language phylum in North East India]", ''6th International Conference of the North East India Linguistics Society'', Tezpur University, Assam, India, Jan 31 – Feb 2.<br />
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