Hill Miri? Add a note?

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Hill Miri? Add a note?

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2022-12-25 06:22
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ISO 639-3: 
mrg

https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10414

"Though Hili Miri is listed under Mising [mrg] in Ethnologue, most experts on the Aranuchal Pradesh and Tani languages treat Hill Miri and Mising as separate and distinct languages belonging to different branches of the Tani subgroup (Burling 2003; Sun 2003, 1993)."

Native speakers worldwide: ~10,000 (2008)

Worth adding a note with Hill Miri and the number of speakers. 

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Chuck Fennig, Tue, 2023-01-10 12:04

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for this information on Hill Miri / Mising [mrg] in India.

I will definitely add this comment to the Mising entry (in some form) for the next edition. However, I will not add the number of speakers (~ 10,000 worldwide) since (1) Ethnologue does not show Mising spoken in any other country besides India and (2) we already have a population of 630,000 in India.

Best wishes,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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