Angami–Pochuri languages

The Angami–Pochuri languages are a small family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in southern Nagaland and Northern Manipur of northeast India. Conventionally classified as "Naga", they are not clearly related to other Naga languages, and are conservatively classified as an independent branch of Sino-Tibetan, pending further research.

Angami–Pochuri
Geographic
distribution		Nagaland
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Subdivisions
  • Angami
  • Pochuri
Glottologanga1286[1]

Coupe (2012)[2] considers the Ao languages to be most closely related to Angami–Pochuri as part of a wider Angami–Ao group.

Languages

The Angami languages are:

The Pochuri languages are:

Rengma–Simi might form a third branch according to Burling (2003).[3][1]

gollark: *Without bringing in your religious beliefs*, it has no benefit.
gollark: Well, from my perspective people don't get anything out of it.
gollark: It's enough time to launch a reasonably small potatOS feature.
gollark: It may not be a massive amount, but it's *there*, and if possible I don't want to spend it on useless stuff, so I don't.
gollark: 1/20th of my available time awake.

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Angami–Pochuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Coupe, Alexander R. 2012. Overcounting numeral systems and their relevance to sub-grouping in the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nagaland. Language and Linguistics / Academica Sinica 13. 193-220.
  3. Burling, R. (2003). The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeastern India. In G. Thurgood & R. LaPolla (Eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (pp. 169-191). London: Routledge.
  • George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.


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