Bangni-Tagin language

Bangni-Tagin
Region Assam
Native speakers
 63,000  (2001–2007)[1]
Sino-Tibetan

  • Tani

    • Western Tani
      • Subansiri
        • Bangni-Tagin
Dialects
Tagin
Bangni (incl. Na)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
tgj – Tagin
nbt – Na
njz – Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect)
Glottolog tagi1241  (Tagin)[2]
naaa1245  (Na)[3]
bang1338  (Bangni, docked to retired code)[4]

Tagin (Tagen), also known as West Dafla, and Bangni (incl. Na) are a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India.[5]

Stuart Blackburn states that the 350 speakers of Mra have "always been, wrongly, subsumed under the administrative label of Tagin." It is not clear if Mra is therefore a distinct dialect of Bangni-Tagin, or a different Tani language altogether.

References

  1. ↑ Tagin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Na at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tagin". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Na". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bangni". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  5. ↑ Post, Mark W. (2013). Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, Aug 9.