Toto language

Spoken in

Sino Tibetan languages

• Tibetobirmanisch Bodisch Dhimal -Toto

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Sit

Txo

Toto is a Sino Tibetan language, which is spoken by about 20,000 people in India. Together with the Dhimal Toto forms the small genetic unit Dhimal -Toto in the bodischen languages ​​that constitute a subunit of the Sino Tibetan.

Geographic distribution and dialects

Toto is spoken in the Indian state of West Bengal in the districts Subhapara, Dhunchipara and Panchayatpara the border with Bhutan. The people of Toto is a recognized Indian nationality, a Scheduled Tribe. The Toto language does not have major dialect differences, a direct understanding with the Dhimal speakers is not possible, since the two languages ​​- though closely related - show considerable differences in the vocabulary.

Many Toto spokesman also master Hindi, Bengali and Nepali some also. For the case of Toto the Devanagari and Bengali font to be used.

Linguistic Features

Like almost all Tibeto-Burman languages ​​Toto also has the word order SOV ( subject-object - verb). The noun is by its immediate Bestimmern as genitive attribute, adjective attribute, number of adjectives and demonstratives, there are postpositions used. Toto is not a tonal language.