Endangered Languages Project - Hill Miri

Hill Miri

^{[aka Miri, Sarak]}

Classification: Sino-Tibetan

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Miri, Sarak
CLASSIFICATION		Sino-Tibetan, Tani
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Though Hili Miri is listed under Mising [mrg] in Ethnologue, most experts on the Aranuchal Pradesh and Tani languages treat Hill Miri and Mising as separate and distinct languages belonging to different branches of the Tani subgroup (Burling 2003; Sun 2003, 1993).

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Information from: “Islamic Inner Asia” . Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (2014)

Threatened

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~10,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2008

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"Hill Miri [mrg] is widely spoken by all but the school-age generation of children, who appear to have abandoned the language in at least some villages."

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in the hilly area of central Arunachal Pradesh

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~ 9,000
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken just east of the Apatani Area

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
12,000 (fieldwork estimate)
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: India

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Assam, mostly Lakhimpur, Sonitpur and Dhemaji districts; some speakers also live across the border in Arunachal Pradesh.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

26.9612, 94.0539

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing