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‎The tibeto burman languages

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 All the chief languages of India are described under their separate names.
 =See also=
 [[The Languages of India: 1909]]
 [[The Languages of India: 2011]]

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-This article was written around 1909 when conditions were<br /> different.It has been archived for its historical value as well as for<br/>the insights it gives into British colonial writing about India.<br/> Indpaedia neither agrees nor disagrees with its contents. <br/> Readers who wish to add fresh information can create a Part II  <br/> of this article. <br/>
+This article was written around 1909 when conditions were<br /> different.It has been archived for its historical value as well as for<br/>the insights it gives into British colonial writing about India.<br/> Indpaedia neither agrees nor disagrees with its contents. <br/> </div> Additional information may please be sent as messages to <br/> the Facebook community, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. <br/>All information used will be acknowledged in your name. </div>
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 Of the Indo-European family, the Iranian branch inhabits Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan; while the Indo-Aryan branch is spoken by the great mass of the people of northern India. The only Semitic language is Arabic, found at Aden, where also the Hamitic Somali was returned. Gipsy dialects are used by the nomadic tribes of India, while Andamanese has not been connected by philologists with any recognized family of speech.
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	belongs to the Semitic and the latter to the Hamitic family.		belongs to the Semitic and the latter to the Hamitic family.
	They hardly fall within the lines of the present inquiry.		They hardly fall within the lines of the present inquiry.
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		+	=Languages: India, 1911==
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		+	'''Encyclopaedia of India'''
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		+	1911.
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		+	No further details are available about this book, except that it was sponsored in some way by the (British-run) Government of India.
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		+	''' NOTE: ''' While reading please keep in mind that all articles in this series have been scanned from a book. Therefore, footnotes have got inserted into the main text of the article, interrupting the flow. Readers who spot these footnotes gone astray might like to shift them to the correct place.
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		+	Secondly, kindly ignore all references to page numbers, because they refer to the physical, printed book.
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		+	==Languages==
		+	According to the linguistic survey of India no fewer than 147 distinct languages are recorded as vernacular in India. These are grouped according to the following system: - Vernaculars of India. Number of Malayo-Polynesian Family - languages spoken.
		+	Malay Group (7831) .
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		+	Mon-Khmer Family (427,760).. Tibeto-Chinese Family Tibeto-Burman Sub-family (9,560,454) Siamese-Chinese Sub-family (1,724,085) Dravidian Family (5 6 ,5 1 4,5 2 4)
		+	Munda Family (3,179,275) Indo-European Family, Aryan Sub-familyIranian Branch (1,377,023) Indo-Aryan Branch (219,780,650) Semitic Family (42,881).. Hamitic Family (5530) Unclassed Languages.
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		+	Andamanese (1882) Gipsy Languages (344,143) Others (125) Total Vernaculars of India 147 The only representatives of the Malayo-Polynesian group in India .are the Selungs of the Mergui Archipelago and the Nicobarese. The Mon-Khmer family, which is most numerous in Indo-China, is here represented by the Talaings of southern Burma and the Khasis of Assam. Of the Tibeto-Chinese family, the Tibeto-Burman sub- :family, as its name implies, is spoken from Tibet to Burma; while the Siamese-Chinese subfamily is represented by the Karens .and Shans of Burma. The Munda or Kolarian family, which is now distinguished from the Dravidian, is almost confined to Chota Nagpur, its best-known tribe being the Santals. The Dravidian family includes the four literary languages of the south, as well as many dialects spoken by hill tribes in central India, and also the isolated Brahui in Baluchistan.
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		+	Of the Indo-European family, the Iranian branch inhabits Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan; while the Indo-Aryan branch is spoken by the great mass of the people of northern India. The only Semitic language is Arabic, found at Aden, where also the Hamitic Somali was returned. Gipsy dialects are used by the nomadic tribes of India, while Andamanese has not been connected by philologists with any recognized family of speech.
		+	All the chief languages of India are described under their separate names.

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 dialects spoken in the eastern hills of Upper Burma,
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 The Tibeto-Burman branch of the Tibeto-Chinese languages
 is very widely spread. It includes two great languages, Tibetan
 and Burmese, each of which has an alphabet of its own akin
-to Deva-nagarl, as well as an extensive literature. Tibetan is
+to Deva-nagarl, as well as an extensive literature.
 one of several dialects grouped under the general name of
 'Bhotia,' from Bhot, the Indian name of Tibet. Besides the
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 and of a double set of plural forms for the first personal
 pronpun, and the same tendency to conjugate a verb by means
 of pronominal suffixes. All this cannot be mere coincidence.
 It inevitably leads to the conclusion that these Himalayan
 tracts were once inhabited by tribes speaking a language con-
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 noun. When a speaker of Lushei, for instance, wishes to say
 'I go/ he says 'my going*; and for 'I went/ 'my going-
 completion/
 ===Burmese===
 Passing over a number of hybrid dialects we come to

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 respectively. They are two quite distinct languages.
-==Western hindi==
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 Western Hindi is, therefore, the modern Indo-Aryan Western