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Meitei
[edit]Modern linguists do not regard Meitei as a member of the Kuki-Chin-Naga family.
The placing of Meithei/Meitei with the so-called Naga group has been done on essentially the same bases as the inclusion of Karbi (immediately above): that is, it has been put here until some clear evidence about its placement is found. The language has some lexical similarities to Kuki and to Tangkhul, but interpretation of these similarities is difficult, given the long-time contact between these groups. Like Karbi, the place of Meithei within Tibeto-Burman subgrouping remains to be determined, in part because the picture has been clouded by long-term contact.[1]
-- Kautilya3 (talk) 13:09, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
References
- ↑ Thurgood, Graham (2003), "A subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan languages: the interaction between language contact, change, and inheritance", in Graham Thurgood; Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages (2 ed.), Routledge, p. 14, ISBN 0-203-22105-2