Chairel language
| Chairel | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Era | attested 1859 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qg2 | |
| Glottolog | chai1254 |
Chairel is an extinct Sal language of Manipur, India. It is preserved only in a word list from 1859.[1] Chairel speakers have since shifted to Meithei.
Classification
From the words for "sun" (sal) and "fire" (phal), it is clear that it is a Sal (Brahmaputran) language.[2]
James Matisoff (2013)[3] demonstrated that Chairel belongs to the Luish sub-branch of Sal.
References
- ^ McCulloch, W. (1859). Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company.
- ^ Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-521-08175-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Matisoff, James A. 2013. Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(2). 1–106.
- Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原敬介 (2014). "A new look at the classification of the Chairel language チャイレル語の系統再考." Proceedings of The Linguistic Society of Japan 日本言語学会第148 回大会予稿集, 148:272-277.
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