WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers looking for dying languages said on Tuesday they discovered a language previously unknown to science and spoken by just 800 people in northeastern India.
The language, called Koro, belongs to the same family of languages as Tibetan and Burmese, linguists Gregory Anderson of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, David Harrison of Oregon's Living Tongues Institute and Ganesh Murmu of India's Ranchi University, reported.
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