Chairel language

{{Short description|Extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Manipur}} {{Infobox language |name=Chairel |nativename= |states=India |region=Manipur |era=attested 1859 |familycolor=Sino-Tibetan |fam2=Central Tibeto-Burman? |fam3=Sal? |fam4=Jingpho–Luish? |fam5=Luish? |iso3=none |linglist=qg2 |glotto=chai1254 |glottorefname=Chairel }}

'''Chairel''' is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language of Manipur, India. It is preserved only in a word list from 1859 alongside the Chakpa language.<ref>{{cite book| title = Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages| first = W. | last = McCulloch| location = Calcutta | publisher = Bengal Printing Company | year = 1859| url = {{google books|OeYwAQAAMAAJ|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref> Chairel speakers have since shifted to Meithei.

==Classification== Benedict (1972) notes that the words for "sun" (''sal'') and "fire" (''phal'') are shared with the Boro–Garo, Konyak, and Jingpho–Luish languages, which are said to constitute the Sal languages.<ref>{{cite book| first = Paul K. | last = Benedict | author-link = Paul K. Benedict| title = Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus| location = Cambridge: Cambridge University Press| year = 1972 | isbn = 978-0-521-08175-7| url = http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pubs_and_prods/Benedict_1972_Sino-Tibetan-Conspectus.pdf| page = 7}}</ref>

Matisoff (2013) argues that Chairel belongs to the Luish languages.<ref name="Matisoff2013">Matisoff, James A. 2013. [https://www.academia.edu/16300693/Re-examining_the_genetic_position_of_Jingpho_putting_flesh_on_the_bones_of_the_Jinghpho_Luish_Relationship Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship]. ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 36(2). 1–106.</ref>

Huziwara (2014) argues that Chairel lacks important characteristics of other Luish languages, a position maintained in Huziwara (2020).<ref>{{Cite journal |title=On the genetic position of Chakpa within Luish languages |journal=Himalayan Linguistics |last=Huziwara |first=Keisuke |date= |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6248736t}}</ref>

Van Driem (2014) accepts Chairel's placement within Jingpho–Luish (referred to in his paper as "Kachinic"), though is agnostic about Jingpho–Luish's relation to Boro–Garo and Konyak.<ref>{{citation| surname = van Driem| given = George| author-mask = 3| chapter = Trans-Himalayan| pages = 11–40| chapter-url = http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2014a.pdf| title = Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area| editor-given1 = Thomas| editor-surname1 = Owen-Smith| editor-given2 = Nathan W.| editor-surname2 = Hill| location = Berlin| publisher = de Gruyter| year = 2014| isbn = 978-3-11-031083-2| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307084339/www.himalayanlanguages.org/files/driem/pdfs/2014a.pdf| archive-date=2016-03-07}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} *Huziwara, Keisuke 藤原敬介 (2014). "A new look at the classification of the Chairel language チャイレル語の系統再考." Proceedings of The Linguistic Society of Japan 日本言語学会第148 回大会予稿集, 148:272-277.

Category:Sal languages Category:Languages of Manipur Category:Extinct languages of Asia