Baram–Thangmi languages

Baram–Thangmi
Thangmi–Baraamu
Geographic
distribution:
Nepal
Linguistic classification:

Sino-Tibetan

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: than1258[1]

The Baram–Thangmi languages, Baram and Thangmi are Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Nepal. They are often classified as part of the Mahakiranti family, as the appear to be closest to the Kiranti languages and perhaps Newari (van Driem 2001).

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Thangmi–Baram". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • George van Driem (2001) Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. Brill.


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