Brill, 2022. — xii, 379 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 52). The Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider region? This...
Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1888. — 157 p. Outline Grammar Of The Lhota Naga Language: With A Vocabulary And Illustrative Sentences is a book written by W.E. Witter in 1888. The book provides a detailed description of the grammar of the Lhota Naga language, including its phonology, morphology, and syntax. The author also includes a comprehensive vocabulary...
Unpublished, 2018. — 46 p. The Hruso people, known in the literature as ‘Aka’, live in some twelve villages in the East Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. Classification of the language is controversial. Generally regarded as Sino-Tibetan, it actually has very few cognates with that family and may in fact be an isolate.
Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 1993. — 72 p. The Akas, or Hrusos as they call themselves, are a tribe inhabiting the central southern portion of Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. Their language has long assumed to be part of the Sino-Tibetan Family, but may actually be a language isolate.
Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, 1990. — 101 p. The Buguns are one of the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh inhabiting the southern part of West Kameng District. Their language is generally classified as part of the Kho-Bwa branch of Sino-Tibetan.
Unpublished, 2015. — 36 p. The language known variously as Miji, Dhammai and Sajolang is spoken in the West and East Kameng and Lower Subansiri districts of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. Two dialects of Miji are recognised, whose relationship shows both regular sound-shifts and complete lexical replacement, as well as differences in tone and phonology. In view of the...
SIL International, 2016. — xviii + 328 p. Nowadays the majority of Lhomis live in the northern part of Arun valley of Sankhuwa Sabha district in East Nepal. Their language, Lhomi, is a dialect of the Central Tibetan language. The dialect of Lhomi used in this grammar is that spoken in Chepuwa village. It is the complex evidentiality strategy and direct evidentials that dominate...
City University of Hong Kong, 2001. — v + 273 p. Extensive study of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. After a brief introduction to the region and its languages, it presents grammar sketches and glossaries for five languages: Rongpo, Byangsi, Darma, Chaudangsi, and Raji.
Berkeley: University of California, 2015. — 76 p. — (Himalayan Linguistics Archive 6). With an estimated 30,000 speakers, the Bumthang language is a major regional language of the kingdom of Bhutan. This synoptic grammar describes just the most obvious grammatical features in the four main dialects of the language, with an emphasis on phonology and morphology. A description of...
Leiden, Boston: Brill City, 2010. — 507 p. — ISBN 978-90-04- 1 7827-4. The research upon which this b ook is based, was carried out over a period of eight years, from 1991 until 1999. Work was done in Bhutanese communities in several different locati ons, including eastern Bhutan, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in West Bengal, India, the border regions j ust to the s outh of Bhutan...
Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, 2004. — 452 p. — ISBN: 99933-52-65-9. Kham (Nepali:खाम) (also Khamkura खामकरा or Kamkura कामकरा) - narrowly defined — is a complex of Tibeto-Burman Magaric languages spoken natively in isolated highlands of Rolpa and Rukum districts of Rapti and the westernmost part of Baglung district in Dhaulagiri Zone by western clans...
Autor/Publisher: N/A 2003. — 128 p. There are over a hundred languages in Nepal,[2] most belonging to the Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan language families. An overview of Nepali languages is found in the work of Toba, Toba, and Rai. The official language of Nepal is Nepali (नपाली), formerly called Khaskura then Gorkhali. According to 2011 national census, the percentage of people...
Cambridge University Press 2002. — 477 p. This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including a functionally transparent split...
Rangoon: National Printing Works, 1963. — 92 p. Language: Burmese and English, Pyu and Pali in text. The book shows, in detail, the history of the development of the Pyu alphabet, which is a descendant of the Gupta and Pallava alphabet, comparing it with its ancestral scripts, from Mauryan Brahmi of 2nd cent. BC till Chalukyan alphabet of 10th cent. AD. Also the book contains...
Lincom Europa, 2006. — 218 p. Reviewed by Wolfgang Schulze, University of Munich. Tujia is spoken by roughly one percent of the eight million ethnic Tujia people who live in the center of the Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou Provinces as well as in the Chongqing Municipality of Central China. The Tujia people are often associated with the ancient kingdom of the Ba people (600–316 BC)....
Brill, 2009. — 409 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region). — ISBN: 90-04-17686-1. A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the...
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