Mijiic languages

Mijiic
Geographic
distribution		Arunachal Pradesh, India and Shannan Prefecture, China
EthnicityMiji people
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan?
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologmiji1239

Mijiic is a small language family of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India, consisting of the erstwhile possible language isolate (dialect cluster) Miji and the recently discovered Bangru language. The two languages are clearly related, though "the very different consonant inventories makes seeking regular correspondences difficult."[1] The Bangru and Miji are geographically separated and are not clearly aware of their linguistic relationship, though there is some evidence for contact between East Miji and Bangru in the past. They are commonly included in the Sino-Tibetan language family, but the evidence is weak.[2][1]

  1. ^ a b Roger Blench (2023) What is the evidence that the isolate languages of Arunachal Pradesh are genuinely Trans-Himalayan?
  2. ^ Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-26