Boroic languages

Boroic
Geographic
distribution
India
Linguistic classificationSino-Tibetan
Subdivisions
  • Boro
  • Dimasa
  • Kachari
  • Kokborok
  • Tiwa
  • Barman
Language codes
Glottologboro1284

The Boroic languages (also simply Boro languages in a wider sense) are a group within the Boro-Garo languages which are spoken in and around the Brahmaputra basin, Barak valley and Tripura of present-day northeast India. They are:

The Barman language is a recently discovered Boroic language spoken by the Barman Kacharis.

Ethnologue (21st edition) include Riang and Usoi as separate languages within the Kokborok language cluster.

Jacquesson (2017:112) also includes Bru (also known as Riang) as a Bodo language.