Luish languages
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Luish | |
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Asakian | |
Geographic distribution | Burma and Bangladesh |
Linguistic classification | Sino-Tibetan |
Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | sakk1239 |
The Luish, Asakian, or Sak languages are a group of Sino-Tibetan languages belonging to the Sal branch. They are spoken in Burma and Bangladesh, and consist of the Sak, Kadu, and Ganan languages. In recent years, Luish languages have been influenced by Burmese and Chakma.
Although Luish languages are now widely scattered and spoken by relatively small populations, Luce (1985) suggests that the Luish languages were “once spread over the whole north of Burma, from Manipur perhaps to northern Yunnan.”
Matisoff (2013)
Extinct languages
Matisoff (2013)
Andro, Sengmai, and Chairel are extinct and known only from a glossary recorded in 1859, their speakers having switched to Meitei.[3][4] There are also various unattested varieties of Lui or Loi ('serf') mentioned in nineteenth-century accounts that appear to be Luish varieties.[5]
It is uncertain whether the extinct
Benedict (1972) and Shafer (1974) had classified the extinct
Classification
Matisoff (2013),
- Asakian
Huziwara (2020) merges Sengmai, Andro, and Chairel as varieties of Chakpa.[2]
Reconstruction
Proto-Luish has been reconstructed by Huziwara (2012),
Proto-Luish reconstructions by Huziwara (2012),[6] can be found at Wiktionary's list of Proto-Luish reconstructions.
References
- ^ a b c d Matisoff, James A. (2013). "Re-Examining the Genetic Position of Jingpho: Putting Flesh on the Bones of the Jingpho/Luish Relationship" (PDF). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 36 (2): 15–95.
- ^ .
- ISBN 978-0-7007-1129-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lui (bookkeeping)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ hdl:2433/182194.
- Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: a conspectus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Huziwara, Keisuke. 2016. タマン語の系統再考 / On the genetic position of Taman reconsidered. In Kyoto University Linguistic Research 35, p. 1-34. doi:10.14989/219018
- Luce, George H. (1985). Phases of Pre-Pagan Burma: languages and history, vol. I, II. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Shafer, Robert (1974). Introduction to Sino-Tibetan. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowit
Bibliography
- George van Driem (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.