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Kamarupan - the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern India and adjacent regions of western Burma

Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language - a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula

Kuki, Kuki-Chin, Chin - Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India

Naga - Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma

Mikir-Meithei - Kamarupan languages spoken in the states of Manipur and Assam in northeastern India

Barish, Bodo-Garo - Kamarupan languages spoken in the state of Assam in northeastern India

Abor, Dafla, Miri, Mirish - little known Kamarupan languages

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Some branches of TB (Lolo-Burmese, Karenic, Baic) have full-blown "omnisyllabic tone" systems, where almost every syllable bears one of several distinctive tones (as in Chinese, Tai, Hmong-Mien, or Vietnamese); in the heterogeneous Himalayan and Kamarupan (northeast India) branches, many languages have prosodic contrasts spread over two or more syllables in a word ("word-tones" or "contouremes") ; others have only a rudimentary contrast of low functional load between high and low pitch, or between clear vs.

Protean prosodies: Alfons Weidert's 'Tibeto-Burman Tonology.'

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