Mising language

Mishing
Mishing
Mising–Padam–Minyong
Plains Miri
Region	Assam
Ethnicity	Mising, Padam, Minyong
Native speakers	629,954 (2011)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tani East Tani (Adi) Mishing; ; ;
Dialects	Padam; Minyong; Mising (Plains Miri);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mrg
Glottolog	misi1242

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Mising or Mishing, also known as Plains Miri, is a Tani language spoken by the Mising people. There are 517,170 speakers (as per Census of India, 2001), who inhabit mostly the Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli, Golaghat, Tinsukia districts of Assam and also some parts of Arunachal Pradesh. The primary literary body of Mising is known as 'Mising Agom Kébang (Mising Language Society)'.

The Mising, Padam and Minyong speak dialects of the same language.

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	k
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	dʒ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s			h^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Fricative	voiced		z
Tap			ɾ
Approximant		w^{[lower-alpha 3]}	l	j

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 [tʃ] and [dʒ] are typically rare, and mainly occur as allophones of /t d/ when after fricatives /s z/.^[2]
↑ [h] is heard in place of /s/ within variations of a local dialect.
↑ [w] is heard phonetically in different environments if a front or central vowel precedes a back vowel (i.e. /aɔ/ ~ [awɔ]).

Vowels[edit]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː	ɨ ɨː	u uː
Mid	ɛ ɛː	ɜ ɜː	ɔ ɔː
Open		a aː

Geographical distribution[edit]

A traditional Mishing house is stilted.

Ethnologue gives the following locations for Mising speakers. The Hill Miri live in Arunachal Pradesh, while the Plains Miri live in Assam.

Assam: North Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli,Charaideu,Bishwanath,Golaghat, and Tinsukia districts
Arunachal Pradesh
- Districts of East Siang, Lower Dibang valley and Lohit. Also on both sides of Kamla river in Ziro subdivision, Lower Subansiri district
- Daporizo subdivision, Upper Subansiri district

References[edit]

↑ Mishing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Doley, Basanta K. A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Mising Language.

External links[edit]

misingagomkebang.org Mising Agom Kebang (Mising Sahitya Sabha) website
macgov.in Mising Autonomous Council
wethemising.wordpress.com Article on Mising language
Mark Post, A documentation of the Upper Belt variety of Minyong (Adi), Arunachal Pradesh, North East India. Endangered Languages Archive.

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[affricate-3] 1.0 ^1.1 [tʃ] and [dʒ] are typically rare, and mainly occur as allophones of /t d/ when after fricatives /s z/.^[2]

[4] [h] is heard in place of /s/ within variations of a local dialect.

[5] [w] is heard phonetically in different environments if a front or central vowel precedes a back vowel (i.e. /aɔ/ ~ [awɔ]).

[e18-1] Mishing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Doley, Basanta K. A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Mising Language.

[1]

[lower-alpha 1]

[lower-alpha 2]

[lower-alpha 3]

[2]