Hruso language

Hruso
Angka(e), Gusso, Hrusso, Tenae
Aka
Native toArunachal Pradesh, India
RegionSoutheast Kameng, Bichom River Valley
EthnicityHruso
Native speakers
3,000 (2007)[1]
perhaps including Levai
Dialects
  • Levai?
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3hru
Glottologhrus1242
ELPHruso

Hruso, also known as Aka (Angka), is a language of Arunachal Pradesh India. Long assumed to be a Sino-Tibetan language, it may actually be a language isolate.[2][3] It is spoken by 3,000 people in 21 villages in Thrizino Circle, West Kameng District.[2] The Hruso people inhabit areas of South East Kameng and are concentrated in the Bichom River Valley, and speak English, Hindi, and Miji in addition to Hruso.[1]

Bangru (Ləvai), spoken on the Tibetan border, might be related to Hruso, but it seems more likely that it is a dialect of Miji.[2]

  1. ^ a b Hruso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-26
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Hruso". Glottolog 4.3.