Hruso language

Hruso
Angka(e), Gusso, Hrusso, Tenae
Aka
Native to Arunachal Pradesh, India
Region Southeast Kameng, Bichom River Valley
Ethnicity Hruso
Native speakers
 3,000 (2007)[1]
perhaps including Levai
possibly Sino-Tibetan (Hruso), or a language isolate
  • Hruso
Dialects
Levai?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 hru
Glottolog hrus1242[2]

Hruso, also known as Aka (Angka), is a language of Arunachal Pradesh India. Long assumed to be a Sino-Tibetan language, it may actually be a language isolate.[3][2] It is spoken by 3,000 people in 21 villages in Thrizino Circle, West Kameng District (Blench & Post 2011:6).[3] The Hruso people inhabit areas of South East Kameng and are concentrated in the Bichom River Valley, and speak English, Hindi, and Miji in addition to Hruso.[1]

Bangru (Ləvai), spoken on the Tibetan border, might be related to Hruso, but it seems more likely that it is a dialect of Miji (Blench & Post 2011:6).[3]

Locations

According to the Ethnologue, Hruso is spoken in the following villages of Thrizino circle, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.

  • Jamiri
  • Husigaon
  • Gohainthan
  • Buragaon
  • Karangonia
  • Raindogonia
  • Yayom
  • Gijiri
  • Dijungonia
  • Tulu
  • Polatari
  • Raghupam
  • Tania
  • Khuppi
  • Bhalukpong
  • Balipho
  • Palizi

Hruso is also spoken in Pisang village, Seppa circle, East Kameng district.

Status

Ethnologue lists the language as 6b, "threatened".

Dialects/varieties

The book Hruso by Robert Shafer, notes the two dialects that Hurso is divided into. The first one is known to be recorded by Campbell and the second dialect is known to be recorded by Anderson, Hesslmeyer, and Payne. Also Dialect A has some differentiation in vocabulary when compared to Dialect B. Dialect A is also known to be briefly recorded and is more archaic than dialect B which has very little recording evidence behind it.

Dialects A 1 Anderson hhu, , k' k'ii "water ", Hess. xu. And. diaha (p. 9), diak'a (17) " to-morrow ". And. yo " to-day ", ya " now ". And. k'sesi " goat " (6), k's8 (18), H. kisie, P. k'esi, k'isi. Camp. gle " foot ", P. -ksi, si-, si, And. -si, H. si. 2 To chew; p. 17, to eat. 3 In na-yu "ear emerald ". 4 The consonant seems to be palatalized in this root in some languages and the vowel perhaps umlauted, both perhaps due to the following *-s. But these languages are too poorly recorded to form a basis for a conclusion.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Hruso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hruso". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 3 Blench, Roger; Post, Mark (2011), (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (PDF)
  4. ↑ http://www.jstor.org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/stable/pdf/608994.pdf?_=1462197859721

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