Adi

Adi is a member of the Eastern Tani branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is spoken by about 100,000 people in central parts of Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast of India. In particular, it is spoken in the West Siang, East Siang, Upper Siang, and Lower Dibang Valley districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

Adi is also known as Abor, Abor-Miri or Lhoba. Dialects include Padam, Minyong, Pasi, Bori and Karko. It is closely related to such languages as Apatani, Galo, Hill Miri and Nyishi.

Christian missionaries were the first to devise ways to write Adi with the Latin script in the early 20th century. Before then, it was an oral language. Several spelling systems were used. The current orthography was standarized by the Adi Agom Kebang, a literary authority for the language.

Adi alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Adi (Excel)

Notes

Long vowels may also be indicated with a colon (a:)
Tone marking appears to be optional.

Sample text

Bí bulum pokai, “Noluke kumyém sikepe potoka: “ ‘Yaie, nokke amíne duuyar kalangka, nokke amonge aadak langka.
Loodí mipíem ngoluke dopenamem ngolum bika.
Ngoluke paab kídíem maab bilangka; kapeila ngolukom ngolum atímape ina miyongem maab bidung. Delokke ngolum darkaa penalo gímo mapeka.’ ”

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1530/LUK.11.ADIBSI

Translation

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.
Give us day by day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
The Lord's Prayer - Luke 11: 2-4

Source: https://www.bible.com/bible/1/LUK.11.KJV

Sample videos in Adi

Information about Adi | Numbers | Tower of Babel

Links

Information about Adi
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_language
https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/adi/
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/misi1242
https://ciil.org/primers/Adi_Primer.pdf
https://www.adibaptistunion.org/en/departments/literature-dept

Tani languages

Adi, Apatani, Bokar, Bori, Galo, Hill Miri, Mising (Plains Miri), Nishi

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 27.01.26. Last modified: 27.01.26

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