Bodo–Koch languages

Bodo–Koch
Kachari–Koch
Geographic distribution:	India
Linguistic classification:	Sino-Tibetan Brahmaputran Bodo–Koch
Subdivisions:	Bodo–Garo Tiwa (lalung) Koch Deori
Glottolog:	bodo1279[1]

The Bodo–Koch languages are a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in eastern India, consisting of three well defined branches: the small Bodo–Garo family, the Koch languages, and the Sutiya language (Deori).

An alternative grouping is:^[2]

• Proto-Boro–Koch
  • Boro
    • Boro, Kokborok, Tiwa
  • Garo
  • Koch
    • Koch, Rabha, Wanang, Atong, Ruga
  • Deuri

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bodo–Garo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. (Wood 2008, p. 6)

Bibliography

• van Driem, George (2001). Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-12062-4.
• Wood, Daniel Cody (2008). An Initial Reconstruction of Proto-Boro-Garo (MA thesis). University of Oregon.