| Bori | |
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| Bori-Karko | |
| Region | Arunachal Pradesh |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (included underAdi [adi]) |
| Glottolog | bori1243 |
| ELP | Bori |
 Bori is classified as Definitely Endangered by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Bori is aTani language ofIndia. Bori is spoken in Payum Circle,West Siang District,Arunachal Pradesh (Megu 1988).
Bori is spoken by theBori, an indigenous tribal people of India.
Post (2013)[1] andEthnologue classify Karko as a variety of Bori.[2]
Megu (1988) defines the consonant and vowel inventories as follows:[3]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar/ Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | c | k |
| Voiced | b | d | g | ||
| Fricative | s | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ⟨ny⟩ | ŋ⟨ng⟩ | |
| Trill | r~ɹ⟨r⟩ | ||||
| Approximant | j⟨y⟩ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ə | |
| Open-mid | ɔ | ||
| Open | a,aː |
Plurality is expressed by adding the auxiliarykídíng after the noun. Nouns have no inherent gender, but animals of a specific sex can be marked by two grammatical genders:masculine and feminine. The masculine is marked by the-bo suffix and the feminine is marked by the-nésuffix. Theword order isSOV.
Four cases are marked by a suffix on the noun. These are thelocative,accusative,instrumental, anddative. Thehabitual aspect is marked by-do and thecontinuous aspect is marked by-dung.-la and -toka areimperative suffixes.-la can also be used for theinterrogative.
Personal pronouns denote three persons and two numbers.[3]
| Person | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngo | ngolu |
| 2 | no | nolu |
| 3 | bí | bulu |
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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| WesternHimalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand,Nepal,Sikkim) |
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| EasternHimalayas (Tibet,Bhutan,Arunachal) | |||||
| Myanmar and Indo- Burmese border |
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| East andSoutheast Asia |
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| Dubious (possible isolates,Arunachal) |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. | |||||
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