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The Sal languages are a family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in eastern India, parts of Bangladesh, and Burma. ==Classification== noted that the Bodo–Garo, Konyak, and Jingpho (Kachin) languages, as well as the extinct Chairel language, shared distinctive roots for "sun" and "fire". proposed a grouping of the Bodo–Garo, Koch, Konyak (Northern Naga) and Jingpho languages, characterized by several shared lexical innovations, including: * *sal "sun" * *war "fire" * *s-raŋ "sky" * *wa "father" * *nu "mother" He called the proposed group Sal, after the words ''sal'', ''san'' and ''jan'' for "sun" in various of these languages. The family is generally presented with three branches (, ): * The Bodo–Koch languages, including the Bodo–Garo and Koch languages are spoken in northeast Indian sates of Meghalaya and Tripura. * The Konyak languages are spoken by the Naga people in southeastern Arunachal Pradesh and northeastern Nagaland states of northeastern India. This group is called Eastern Naga by and Northern Naga by other authors. (The remaining languages of Nagaland belong to the separate Kuki-Chin–Naga group.) * The Kachinic or Kachin–Luic languages include Jingpho (Jinghpaw, Singhpo or Kachin), spoken in northern Burma and adjacent regions, and the Luish (or Sak) languages. Shafer had grouped the first two as his Baric division, and also combines them as a subbranch. Bradley considers Pyu and Kuki-Chin–Naga to be possibly related to Sal, but is uncertain about this. ''Ethnologue'' calls the family simply "Jingpho–Konyak–Bodo". The Brahmaputran branch of van Driem has three variants. The smallest is his most recent and which he considers a well-establish low-level group of Sino-Tibetan. *Bodo–Koch and Konyak. *Bodo–Koch, Konyak, and Dhimal. *Bodo–Koch, Konyak, Dhimal, and Kachin–Luic.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sal languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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