Karbi language

Karbi
Karbi
Arlêng
Region	Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh
Ethnicity	Karbi
Native speakers	528,503 (2011)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman languages (?) Kuki-Chin–Naga Karbi; ; ; ;
Dialects	Amri;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; mjw – Karbi; ajz – Plains Karbi (Amri)
Glottolog	karb1240
ELP	Karbi
	Map showing where Karbi is spoken.

A Karbi speaker speaking Karbi and English, recorded in India.

The Karbi language (US: /kɑːrbi/ ^ⓘ) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Karbi (also known as Mikir or Arlêng) people of Northeastern India.

It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Grierson (1903)^[2] classified it under Naga languages, Shafer (1974) and Bradley (1997) classify the Mikir languages as an aberrant Kuki-Chin branch, but Thurgood (2003) leaves them unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Post (2013) classify it as one of the most basal languages of the entire family.

^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx2001 census Archived 2012-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
^ Linguistic survey of India vol III Part II

[1] ttp://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx2001 census Archived 2012-02-06 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Linguistic survey of India vol III Part II

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