Tiwa language

E682370

Tiwa language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Tiwa (Lalung) people of northeastern India, primarily in Assam and Meghalaya.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tiwa language canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language ⓘ
language ⓘ
associatedWithReligion Hinduism ⓘ
indigenous Tiwa beliefs ⓘ
country India ⓘ
ethnicGroup Lalung people ⓘ
Tiwa people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Lalung language ⓘ
Tibeto-Burman Tiwa ⓘ
hasClassification Sal branch (proposed) ⓘ
hasContactLanguage Assamese language ⓘ
Hindi language ⓘ
Khasi language ⓘ
hasDialects Hill Tiwa ⓘ
Plains Tiwa ⓘ
hasGlottocode tiwa1240 ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code lax ⓘ
hasLinguisticArea Assam linguistic area ⓘ
Northeast India linguistic area ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNeighboringEthnicGroup Bodo people ⓘ
Khasi people ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
tone ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
isEndangered true ⓘ
isSpokenNear Brahmaputra Valley ⓘ
Khasi Hills ⓘ
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan ⓘ
Tibeto-Burman ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Assamese language ⓘ
Bodo language ⓘ
linked to: Bodo

Garo language ⓘ
Khasi language ⓘ
region Northeastern India ⓘ
linked to: Northeast India
spokenBy Lalung people ⓘ
Tiwa people ⓘ
spokenIn Assam ⓘ
India ⓘ
Meghalaya ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
folk songs ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
rituals ⓘ
writingSystem Assamese script ⓘ
Devanagari script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tiwa people → language → Tiwa language ⓘ
Tewa language → closelyRelatedTo → Tiwa language ⓘ
Bodo–Garo languages → hasMember → Tiwa language ⓘ
Garo language → closelyRelatedTo → Tiwa language ⓘ
Jonbeel Mela → languageContext → Tiwa language ⓘ
Tiwa Autonomous Council → languageUsed → Tiwa language ⓘ
Tiwa → language → Tiwa language ⓘ
Mayong → languageSpoken → Tiwa language ⓘ