KAMARUPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kamarupan mean? 

• KAMARUPAN (noun)
  The noun KAMARUPAN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: KAMARUPAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAMARUPAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Kamarupan" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Kamarupan"):

Chin; Kuki; Kuki-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)