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(Redirected from Shumcho) Sino-Tibetan language of India
Shumcho
RegionHimachal Pradesh
Native speakers2400 (2022)
Language familySino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3scu
Glottologshum1243

Shumcho is an underdocumented Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India.

Shumcho speakers make up a majority of the population in the villages of Kanam, Labrang, Spillo, Shyaso, Rushkalang and Taling. They also reside in the mixed villages of Sunnam, Jangi, Lippa and Asrang where they belong to the lower Scheduled Caste. Upper-caste Scheduled Tribe dwellers of the same villages speak related but distinct languages, Sunam and Jangshung.

References

  1. Negi, Harvinder Kumar (2022), "Linguistic Demography of Himachal Pradesh", Nepalese Linguistics, 35: 70–78, retrieved 2023-02-08
  2. also known as Sumcho
  3. "Research and Documenting Endangered Languages of Kinnaur", Austrian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-02-08

Bibliography

  • Huber, Christian (2011), "Some notes on gender and number marking in Shumcho", in Gerda Lechleitner; Christian Liebl (eds.), Jahrbuch des Phonogrammarchivs der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2, Göttingen: Cuvillier, pp. 52–90
  • Huber, Christian (2014), "Subject and object agreement in Shumcho", in Nathan Hill; Thomas Owen-Smith (eds.), Trans-Himalayan Linguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 221–274
  • Huber, Christian (2014), "The Verbal Plural Marker in Shumcho", in Ludmila Veselovská; Markéta Janebová (eds.), Complex Visibles Out There, Olomouc: Palacky University, pp. 193–216
  • Huber, Christian (2019), "Progressivity and habituality in Shumcho", STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 72 (1): 83–132
Sino-Tibetan branches
Western Himalayas (Himachal,
Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim)
Greater Magaric
Map of Sino-Tibetan languages
Eastern Himalayas
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Myanmar and Indo-
Burmese border
"Naga"
Sal
East and Southeast Asia
Burmo-Qiangic
Dubious (possible
isolates) (Arunachal)
Greater Siangic
Proposed groupings
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches.
Bodic (Tibeto-Kanauri) languages
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Lahaulic
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Central
Almora
Bodish
Tibetic
Central Tibetan
Amdo
Kham (Eastern)
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Ladakhi–Balti (Western Archaic)
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Sherpa-Jirel
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Tshangla-East Bodish
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East Bodish
Basum
Tamangic
TGTM
Ghale
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