Bangni-Tagin language

Bangni-Tagin
Region	Assam
Native speakers	63,000 (2001–2007)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tani Western Tani Subansiri Bangni-Tagin
Dialects	Tagin Bangni (incl. Na)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: tgj – Tagin nbt – Na njz – Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect)
Glottolog	tagi1241  (Tagin)[2] naaa1245  (Na)[3] bang1338  (Bangni, docked to retired code)[4]

Tagin (Tagen), also known as West Dafla, and Bangni (incl. Na) are a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India.^[5]

Stuart Blackburn states that the 350 speakers of Mra have "always been, wrongly, subsumed under the administrative label of Tagin." It is not clear if Mra is therefore a distinct dialect of Bangni-Tagin, or a different Tani language altogether.

References

1. Tagin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Na at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Nyishi (partial: Bangni dialect) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tagin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Na". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bangni". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
5. Post, Mark W. (2013). Defoliating the Tani Stammbaum: An exercise in areal linguistics. Paper presented at the 13th Himalayan Languages Symposium. Canberra, Australian National University, Aug 9.