Tiwa language (India)

Not to be confused with Tiwa language (United States).

Tiwa
Lalung
Native to	India
Region	Assam
Ethnicity	171,000 Tiwa (Lalung) (2001 census)^[1]
Native speakers	27,000 (2001 census)^[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Brahmaputran Bodo–Koch Bodo–Garo Bodo Tiwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`lax`
Glottolog	`tiwa1253`^[2]

Tiwa, or Lalung, is a Sino-Tibetan language of Assam in North East India.

Geographical distribution

Tiwa is spoken in the following districts (Ethnologue).

References

1 2 Tiwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tiwa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Sal (Brahmaputran) languages

Bodo–Koch

Bodo–Garo	Bodo Dimasa Tiwa Kokborok (Tripuri) Kachari Moran Garo Megam

Koch	Atong Koch Ruga Rabha

Deori	Deori

Konyak

Kachin–Luic

Dhimal

Dhimal
Toto

Unclassified

Chairel

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