Rung languages

{{Short description|Proposed branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages}}{{Infobox language family

| name = Rung

| altname = Eastern Tibeto-Burman

| region = China, Burma, Nepal, India

| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan

| child1 = Rgyalrongic (?)

| child2 = Nungish

| child3 = Kiranti

| child4 = Magaric

| child5 = West Himalayan

| glotto = none

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The Rung languages are a proposed branch of Sino-Tibetan languages. The branch was proposed by Randy LaPolla on the basis of morphological evidence such as pronominal paradigms. However, Guillaume Jacques and Thomas Pellard (2021) argues that these languages do not constitute a monophyly based on recent phylogenetic studies{{Cite journal|last1=Sagart|first1=Laurent|last2=Jacques|first2=Guillaume|last3=Lai|first3=Yunfan|last4=Ryder|first4=Robin J.|last5=Thouzeau|first5=Valentin|last6=Greenhill|first6=Simon J.|last7=List|first7=Johann-Mattis|date=2019-05-21|title=Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=116|issue=21|pages=10317–10322|doi=10.1073/pnas.1817972116|issn=0027-8424|pmc=6534992|pmid=31061123|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Hanzhi|last2=Ji|first2=Ting|last3=Pagel|first3=Mark|last4=Mace|first4=Ruth|date=2020|title=Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages|journal=Scientific Reports|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=20792|doi=10.1038/s41598-020-77404-4|issn=2045-2322|pmc=7695722|pmid=33247154|bibcode=2020NatSR..1020792Z}} and on a thorough investigation of shared lexical innovations.{{Cite journal|last1=Jacques|first1=Guillaume|last2=Pellard|first2=Thomas|date=2021-02-03|title=Phylogenies based on lexical innovations refute the Rung hypothesis|url=http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dia.19058.jac|journal=Diachronica|language=en|volume=38|issue=1|pages=1–24|doi=10.1075/dia.19058.jac|issn=0176-4225}}

LaPolla (2003) lists the following languages as part of his provisional "Rung" group.LaPolla, Randy. 2003. "Overview of Sino-Tibetan Morphosyntax". In Graham Thurgood & Randy LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages. London: Routledge.

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• Rung
• Rgyalrongic (also often included into the Qiangic branch)
• Nungish
• T'rung (Dulong)
• Anong
• Rawang
• Kiranti
• West Himalayan (Kinauri-Almora)
• Kinauri
• Almora
• Kham
• Magar
• Chepang

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Kham, Magar, and Chepangic have also been proposed to form part of a Greater Magaric group.