Nungish languages

Nungish
Geographic
distribution:
Yunnan, Burma
Linguistic classification: Sino-Tibetan
Subdivisions:

The Nung languages are a poorly described family of uncertain affiliation within the Tibeto-Burman languages. They include:

and are spoken in Yunnan and Burma.

Matisoff postulated a relationship between Nungish and Jingpho, but neither van Driem (2001) nor Thurgood and La Polla (2003) have been able to find substantiating evidence.

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