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Proposed Sino-Tibetan language family
Miju
Kman-Meyor, Geman, Southern Mishmi
(proposed)
Geographic
distribution
Arunachal Pradesh
EthnicityMiju Mishmi
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
  • Miju
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologgema1234

The Miju (Midžu, Miju, Mijhu), Kaman–Meyor, Midžuish, Southern Mishmi, or Geman languages are a small proposed family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Kaman (Miju Mishmi) people of southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh. The languages are Kaman (Midzu/Miju) and Zakhring (Meyor). Although Zakhring appears to be Sino-Tibetan, Kaman may be more divergent. Blench and Post (2011) believe that Zakhring is an East Bodish language that has been influenced by Midzu or other divergent languages of the region, whereas Kaman may be a language isolate.

Blench (2015) suggests that Meyor (Zakhring) and Kman may each be language isolates. Blench argues that the lexical similarities between Kaman and Zakhring are borrowings, and that Zakhring had borrowed heavily from Kaman and Tibetic, and then later borrowed from Naga languages and Jingpho as well.

Regardless, they are not closely related to the Northern Mishmi also known as Digaro languages.

References

  1. DeLancey, Scott (2021). "Classifying Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages". The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 207–224. doi:10.1515/9783110558142-012. ISBN 9783110558142. S2CID 238722139.
  2. George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
  3. Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-26
  4. Blench, Roger. 2015. The classification of Meyor (Zakhring). m.s.
  • George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas (Himachal,
Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
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Map of Sino-Tibetan languages
Eastern Himalayas
(Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal)
Myanmar and Indo-
Burmese border
"Naga"
Sal
East and Southeast Asia
Burmo-Qiangic
Dubious (possible
isolates) (Arunachal)
Greater Siangic
Proposed groupings
Proto-languages
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Digaro (Northern Mishmi)
Siangic
Hrusish
Kho-Bwa
Puroik
Bugun
Western
Miju–Meyor
Language families of Eurasia
Europe
West Asia
Caucasus
South Asia
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Indian Ocean rim
North Asia
"Paleosiberian"
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Proposed groupings
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Substrata
  • Families in italics have no living members.
  • Families with more than 30 languages are in bold.
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