Tagin (Tagen), also known as West Dafla and Bangni (incl. Na) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India.[2]
Bangni-Tagin | |
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Native to | India, China |
Region | Arunachal Pradesh , Tibet |
Native speakers | 62,897 (2011 census)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:tgj – Taginnbt – Nanjz – Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect) |
Glottolog | tagi1241 Taginnaaa1245 Nabang1338 Bangni, docked to retired code |
Stuart Blackburn states that the 350 speakers of Mra have "always been, wrongly, subsumed under the administrative label of Tagin."[citation needed] It is not clear whether Mra is therefore a distinct dialect of Bangni-Tagin, or a different Tani language altogether.
References
edit- ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ Post, Mark W. (2013). Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics. Retrieved 2 February 2020 – via academia.edu. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, 9 August 2013.