1.
The Mising or Miri language belongs to the North Assam group
of the Tibeto-Burman family of languages. The term ‘North
Assam group, which is purely a geographical epithet, was given
by George Grierson. However, Grierson himself agrees that
the term does not have any linguistic explicability. The term
is superfluous in the present context owing to the fact that
some of the languages belonging to this group are spoken in
Arunachal Pradesh, which is a separate State now. I prefer
to refer to this group of languages by the name ‘”Tani
group” or “Ami group” simply because the
speakers of these languages prefer to call themselves “Ami”
or “Tani” (=man) and their languages “Amigom”
or “Tanigom” (=human speech). Languages of this
group can be divided into the following sub-groups :
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