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Karbi language
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The Karbi language (US: /kɑːrbi/ ⓘ) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Karbi (also known as Mikir or Arlêng) people of Northeastern India.
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Karbi | |
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Arlêng | |
Region | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh |
Ethnicity | Karbi |
Native speakers | 528,503 (2011)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:mjw – Karbiajz – Plains Karbi (Amri) |
Glottolog | karb1240 |
ELP | Karbi |
![]() Languages of Assam (The Karbi language is spoken in the yellow area) |
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It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Grierson (1903)[2] classified it under Naga languages, Shafer (1974) and Bradley (1997) classify the Mikir languages as an aberrant Kuki-Chin branch, but Thurgood (2003) leaves them unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Post (2013) classify it as one of the most basal languages of the entire family.