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| Karbi | |
|---|---|
| Arlêng | |
| Region | Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh |
| Ethnicity | Karbi |
Native speakers | 528,503 (2011)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:mjw – Karbiajz – Plains Karbi (Amri) |
| Glottolog | karb1240 |
| ELP | Karbi |
 Map showing where Karbi is spoken. | |
The Karbi language (US: /kɑːrbi/ ⓘ) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Karbi (also known as Mikir or Arlêng) people of Northeastern India. It also called Hills Karbi to differentiate it from Plains Karbi (Amri Karbi) which is variously treated as a variety of Karbi or its own language.
It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Grierson (1903)[2] classified it under Naga languages, Shafer (1974) and Bradley (1997) classify the Mikir languages as an aberrant Kuki-Chin branch, but Thurgood (2003) leaves them unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Post (2013) classify it as one of the most basal languages of the entire family.
- ^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement1.aspx2001 census Archived 2012-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Linguistic survey of India vol III Part II