| Moran | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Assam |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
qg1 | |
| Glottolog | None |
Moran (Morān) is an extinct Boro-Garo language which was spoken in Assam in Northeast India (mostly Tinsukia district) and related to Dimasa language.[1] The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931, and the only source of this language exists in a 1904 article by P R Gurdon.[2][3] The speakers of this language have shifted to the Assamese language. The name "Moran" reportedly means 'forest dweller'.[citation needed]
- ^ Jacquesson 2017, p. 108: "I have recently been able to demonstrate that Gurdon’s dialect is a variety of Dimasa, since it retains all the features examined here: it has the same consonant clusters and diphthongs as Dimasa."
- ^ Jacquesson 2017, p. 108: "A second more dramatic example is P.R. Gurdon’s 1904 article 'The Morans' in the same journal. ... The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931. Gurdon’s article is thus the only source for this extinct language."
- ^ Gurdon, P. R. T. (1907). "The Morans". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 73 (1): 36.
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