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Digaro languages

The Digaro (Digarish), Northern Mishmi (Mishmic), or Kera'a–Tawrã languages are a possible small family of possibly Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by the Mishmi people of southeastern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.

External relationships
They are not related to the Southern Mishmi Miju languages, apart from possibly being Sino-Tibetan. However, Blench and Post (2011) suggests that they may not even be Sino-Tibetan, but rather an independent language family of their own. Blench (2014) classifies the Digaro languages as part of the Greater Siangic group of languages. ==Names==
Names
Autonyms and exonyms for Digaro-speaking peoples, as well as Miju (Kaman), are given below (Jiang, et al. 2013:2-3). ==Registers==
Registers
Idu, Tawra, Kman, and Meyor all share a system of multiple language registers, which are (Blench 2016): • ordinary speech • speech of hunters: lexical substitution, the replacement of animal names and others by special lexical forms, and sometimes short poems • speech of priests/shamans: more complex, involving much language which is difficult to understand, and also lengthy descriptions of sacrificial animals • poetic/lyrical register (not in Idu, but appears in Kman) • mediation register (only in Idu?) • babytalk register ==References==
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