Boroic languages

The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense^[1]) are a group within the Boro-Garo languages which are spoken in and around the Brahmaputra basin, Barak valley and Tripura of present-day northeast India. They are:

• Boro
• Dimasa
• Kachari
• Kokborok (Tripuri)
• Tiwa

Boroic
Geographic distribution	India
Linguistic classification	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?) Sal Boro–Garo Boroic
Subdivisions	Boro Dimasa Kachari Kokborok Tiwa Barman
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	boro1284

The Barman language is a recently discovered Boroic language spoken by the Barman Kacharis.

Ethnologue (21st edition) include Riang and Usoi as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.

Jacquesson (2017:112)^[2] also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.

References

External links

• Ethnologue page on Bodo languages
• Ethnologue map of languages of Bangladesh