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The Brahmaputran or Sal languages are a family of Tibeto-Burman languages
Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman family of languages is spoken in various Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia and southeast Asian countries, including Burma , Tibet, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, parts of central China , northern parts of Nepal, eastern parts of Bangladesh , Bhutan, northern parts of Pakistan , and various regions of India ....
 spoken in eastern India and Burma.

In the classification of Van Driem (2001), the Brahmaputran branch of Tibeto-Burman includes the following families:






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The Brahmaputran or Sal languages are a family of Tibeto-Burman languages
Tibeto-Burman languages

The Tibeto-Burman family of languages is spoken in various Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia and southeast Asian countries, including Burma , Tibet, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, parts of central China , northern parts of Nepal, eastern parts of Bangladesh , Bhutan, northern parts of Pakistan , and various regions of India ....
 spoken in eastern India and Burma.

In the classification of Van Driem (2001), the Brahmaputran branch of Tibeto-Burman includes the following families:
  • Dhimal
    Dhimal languages

    The Dhimal languages, Dhimal language and Toto language, are a small family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in eastern India and Nepal....
  • Bodo-Koch
    Bodo-Koch languages

    The Bodo-Koch languages are a family of Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in eastern India, consisting of three well defined branches: the small Bodo-Garo languages family, the Koch languages, and the Chutiya language....
  • Konyak
    Konyak languages

    The Konyak languages, or Northern Naga, are a small family of half a dozen Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Naga people in eastern India....
     (Northern Naga
    Naga people

    More than four million Naga Scheduled tribe are found in Nagaland, parts of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in North-East India, and parts of Myanmar such as the Sagaing Division....
    )
  • Kachin-Luic
    Kachin-Luic languages

    The Kachin-Luic or Kachinic languages are a family of Tibeto-Burman languages of eastern India and Burma, consisting of the Jingpho language language and the Sak languages languages Sak, Kadu, Andro, and Sengmai....
     (Jingpho-Sak)
Schematically, they are:

The inclusion of Dhimal is new to Van Driem. Bradley (1997) and Thurgood & La Polla (2003) use the name Sal. Ethnologue
Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christianity linguistics service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles, in their native language....
 calls the pre-Dhimal (Sal) family simply "Jingpho-Konyak-Bodo".

The conception of Bradley (1997) is quite different: