Hruso language
| Hruso | |
|---|---|
| Aka | |
| Native to | Arunachal Pradesh, India |
| Region | Southeast Kameng, Bichom River Valley |
| Ethnicity | Hruso |
Native speakers |
3,000 (2007)[1] perhaps including Levai |
| Dialects |
Levai?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
hru |
| Glottolog |
hrus1242[2] |
Hruso, also known as Aka (Angka), is a language of Arunachal Pradesh India. Long assumed to be a Sino-Tibetan language, it may actually be a language isolate.[3][2] It is spoken by 3,000 people in 21 villages in Thrizino Circle, West Kameng District (Blench & Post 2011:6).[3] The Hruso people inhabit areas of South East Kameng and are concentrated in the Bichom River Valley, and speak English, Hindi, and Miji in addition to Hruso.[1]
Ləvai (Bangru), spoken on the Tibetan border, might be related to Hruso, but it seems more likely that it is a dialect of Miji (Blench & Post 2011:6).[3]
References
- 1 2 Hruso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hruso". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 3 Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF)
External links
- Endangered Languages.com
- Simon, I.M. (1993) Aka language guide
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