Social:Chairel language
| Chairel | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Manipur |
| Era | attested 1859 |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qg2 | |
| Glottolog | chai1254[1] |
Chairel is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Manipur, India. It is preserved only in a word list from 1859 alongside the Chakpa language.[2] Chairel speakers have since shifted to Meithei.
Classification
Benedict (1972) notes that the words for "sun" (sal) and "fire" (phal) 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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