| Digaro Mishmi | |
|---|---|
| Tawra | |
| Taraon | |
| Native to | India, China |
| Region | Arunachal |
| Ethnicity | Mishmi people |
Native speakers | 35,000 (2001 census)[1] |
Possibly Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mhu |
| Glottolog | diga1241 |
| ELP | Digaro-Mishmi |
 Taraon is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Digaro, also Taraon, Tawra, or Darang, is a Digarish language of northeastern Arunachal Pradesh, India and Zayü County, Tibet, China.
According to Jiang, et al. (2013:2), their autonym is tɑ31 rɑŋ53 or da31 raŋ53, and alternatively tɯŋ53 (Deng 登, 僜) in China. The Kaman (Miju) call them tɕi31 moŋ35, the Idu call them tɑ31 rɑŋ35, and the Assamese call them Digaro Mishmi.
In Arunachal Pradesh, India, Digaro Mishmi is spoken in Hayuliang, Changlagam, and Goiliang circles in the Amjaw district (Ethnologue). It is also spoken in Dibang Valley district and Assam.
Jiang, et al. (2013:2) reports that in Zayü County, Tibet, Taraon is spoken in the following villages.
| Labial | Alveolar | (Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tɕ | |||
| aspirated | tsʰ | tɕʰ | ||||
| voiced | dz | dʑ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ɕ | h | |||
| Approximant | w | ɹ | j | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
