Social:Chairel language
| Chairel | |
|---|---|
| Chairen | |
| ꯆꯥꯏꯔꯦꯜ/ꯆꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ | |
 Classical Meetei Mayek script transliteration of the word "Chairen" and its variant "Chairel" | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Ethnicity | assimilated into the Meitei ethnicity |
| Era | attested 1859 |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | chai1254[1] |
Chairel (ꯆꯥꯏꯔꯦꯜ), also spelled as Chairen (ꯆꯥꯏꯔꯦꯟ), is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Manipur, India. It is preserved notably in a word list from 1859, alongside the Chakpa language. Chairel speakers have undergone linguistic shifting to Meitei language.[2]
Classification
Benedict (1972) notes that the words sal 'sun' and phal 'fire' are shared with the Boro–Garo, Konyak, and Jingpho–Luish languages, which are said to constitute the Sal languages.[3]
Matisoff (2013) argues that Chairel belongs to the Luish languages.[4]
Huziwara (2014) argues that Chairel lacks important characteristics of other Luish languages, a position maintained in Huziwara (2020).[5]
Van Driem (2014) accepts Chairel's placement within Jingpho–Luish (referred to in his paper as "Kachinic"), though is agnostic about Jingpho–Luish's relation to Boro–Garo and Konyak.[6]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Chairel". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chai1254.
- ↑ McCulloch, W. (1859). Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company. https://books.google.com/books?id=OeYwAQAAMAAJ.
- ↑ Benedict, Paul K. (1972). Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-521-08175-7. http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pubs_and_prods/Benedict_1972_Sino-Tibetan-Conspectus.pdf.
- ↑ Matisoff, James A. 2013. Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 36(2). 1–106.
- ↑ Huziwara, Keisuke. "On the genetic position of Chakpa within Luish languages". Himalayan Linguistics. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6248736t.
- ↑
- Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原敬介 (2014). "A new look at the classification of the Chairel language チャイレル語の系統再考." Proceedings of The Linguistic Society of Japan 日本言語学会第148 回大会予稿集, 148:272-277.
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