Ruga is a Garo dialect which is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was spoken in the East Garo Hills district and West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India. The last speaker died in the late 2000s. Today, people who identify themselves as Ruga are all speakers of Garo.
Ruga | |
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Native to | India |
Native speakers | 100 (2003)[1] |
Language family | Sino-Tibetan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ruh |
Glottolog | ruga1238 |
ELP | Ruga |
Sino-Tibetan branches | |||||
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Western Himalayas (Himachal, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Sikkim) |
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Eastern Himalayas (Tibet, Bhutan, Arunachal) | |||||
Myanmar and Indo-Burmese border |
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East and Southeast Asia |
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Dubious (possible isolates) (Arunachal) |
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Proposed groupings |
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Proto-languages |
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Italics indicates single languages that are also considered to be separate branches. |
Sal (Brahmaputran) languages | |||||||||
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Boro–Garo |
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Konyak (Northern Naga) |
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Jingpho–Luish |
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