Ao languages
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| Ao | |
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| Ethnicity: | Ao Naga |
| Geographic distribution: |
Nagaland, India |
| Linguistic classification: | Sino-Tibetan
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| Subdivisions: |
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 Nagaland
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The Ao languages are a small family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Ao people of Nagaland in northeast India. Conventionally classified as "Naga", they are not clearly related to other Naga languages, and are conservatively classified as an independent branch of Tibeto-Burman, pending further research.
There are six known Ao languages:
- Chungli Ao
- Mongsen Ao
- Sangtam ('Thukumi')
- Yimchungrü ('Yachumi')
- Lotha (Lhota),
plus undescribed 'dialects' which may turn out to be separate languages (see Mongsen Ao).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.
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