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The Tangkhul, Tangkhulic, or Luhupa languages are a small family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken mostly in northeastern Manipur, India. Conventionally classified as "Naga", they are not clearly related to other Naga languages, and are conservatively classified as an independent branch of Tibeto-Burman, pending further research. There are perhaps four Tangkhul languages, *Indian Tangkhul *Somra (Burmese Tangkhul), Akyaung Ari *Maring They are not particularly close. No linguistic data is available for Maring. ''Ethnologue'' lists Khoibu as a second Maring language. The recently discovered Sorbung language could be either a Kukish or Tangkhulic language. Mortenson and Keogh (2011) consider a Kukish affiliation to be more likely, although they recognize that are strong links with Southern Tangkhul.〔David Mortenson and Jennifer Keogh. 2011. Sorbung, an Undocumented Language of Manipur: its Phonology and Place in Tibeto-Burman. In JEALS 4, vol 1. http://jseals.org/JSEALS-4-1.pdf〕 The recently discovered and as-yet unclassified Koki Naga language is about as close to the Tangkhul languages as they are to each other. ==References== * George van Driem (2001) ''Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region.'' Brill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tangkhul languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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