• Source: Digaro languages

      • The Digaro (Digarish), Northern Mishmi (Mishmic), or Kera'a–Tawrã languages are a possible small family of possibly Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Mishmi people of southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.
      The languages are Idu and Taraon (Digaro, Darang). Lexical similarities are restricted to centain semantic fields, so a relationship between them is doubtful.


      External relationships


      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.
      Blench (2014) classifies the Digaro languages as part of the Greater Siangic group of languages.


      Names


      Autonyms and exonyms for Digaro-speaking peoples, as well as Miju (Kaman), are given below (Jiang, et al. 2013:2-3).


      Registers


      Idu, Tawra, Kman, and Meyor all share a system of multiple language registers, which are (Blench 2016):

      ordinary speech
      speech of hunters: lexical substitution, the replacement of animal names and others by special lexical forms, and sometimes short poems
      speech of priests/shamans: more complex, involving much language which is difficult to understand, and also lengthy descriptions of sacrificial animals
      poetic/lyrical register (not in Idu, but appears in Kman)
      mediation register (only in Idu?)
      babytalk register


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