Also called Arunamese, Nefamese is a pidgin language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is used in communications between the Nyishi, Adi, Apatanai, Khampti, Hill Miri, Idu Mishimi, Nocte, Wancho, Tagin, Mompa, Zakhring and Bugun peoples and other indigenous groups in Northeast Ind...
Idu Mishmi is a Digaro language, a group of languages which possibly belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken in northeast India in the Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh. There are also speakers in China in Zayü County (察隅县 /རྫ་ཡུལ་...
Eastern Tamangis spoken by about 1.2 million people in Nepal in the Bagmati, Narayani, Janakpur and Sagarmatha zones and in Kathmandu. There are also about 20,200 speakers of Eastern Tamang in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and West Bengal states in northern India. It is also known as Ishang, ...
However, this is a serious under-reporting of the actual number of languages as well because the Census also recorded over 1,500 "mother tongues" used in India (Census India, 2010-2011). This discrepancy can be explained by the criteria used that only languages with more than 10,000 ...
Assamese is the easternmost member of theIndo-Aryan branchof theIndo-European language family. It is spoken as a first language by 12.8 million people primarily in the Indian state ofAssamand in the neighboring states ofWest Bengal,Meghalaya, andArunachal Pradeshas well as inBangladeshandBhutan(...
History of Migration In several research works, the term Kirat is used to describe the groups of people including the Bodos. According to Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, the Kirat came to Assam in 2000 BC. They seem to have come from North-Western China between the head waters of the Huang- Ho...
in one village, they came to understand that not everyone there was speaking it. “We realized that a large part of the village spoke a different language. They used words, phonemes and grammatical structures that are not used in Jahai,” says Joanne Yager, lead author of the study, ...
Hindi and English have been declared as the official languages to be used in official purposes throughout the country. How many languages have been recognized in the eighth schedule of the Indian constitution? What are the 22 national languages of India? Is Hindi the official language of India?
As mentioned above Nepali is a language that is written in the Devanagari script like Hindi and Sanskrit. The history of the language also has some records of using the Takri script as well. This is used in the western region of Nepal, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Another old script ...
Sherpa is mainly spoken in villages, especially by older adults. In towns there is a shift to Nepali, younger people are more likely to speak Nepali, or other languages, and children are teased at school for speaking Sherpa. There is some literature in Sherpa, it is used in newspapers and...