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Author | : John T. King |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2009-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047429176 |
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The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of Āṭhiyābārī, the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.
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Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Dörte Borchers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047433491 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.
Author | : Gerard Tolsma |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047418166 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.
Author | : Heleen Plaisier |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047411595 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Lepcha language has been shrouded in a veil of tantalising mystique ever since Colonel George Mainwaring in the 1870s disseminated the myth that Lepcha was the most perfect of tongues and represented the primordial language of men and fairies. The present book is the first ever comprehensive reference grammar of this language, spoken by the indigenous tribal people of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. Some popular lore about Lepcha has a firm basis in fact, however. Lepcha represents a branch unto itself within the Tibeto-Burman languages. Lepcha is written in its own unique script. This highly readable grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).
Author | : Christopher Moseley |
Publisher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9231040960 |
Download Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.
Author | : Jan Michiel Otto |
Publisher | : Leiden University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9789087280581 |
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This is the same edition as 9789057890024 This Dzongkha textbook by George van Driem provides a practical introduction to the national language of Bhutan for both linguist and layman. The script, phonology and grammar of Dzongkha are explained at length in eight chapters. The phonological romanization officially known as Roman Dzongkha, employed throughout the book, makes the course suitable both for learners who wish to master the Bhutanese script as well as for those who wish to acquire only a spoken command of the language. Each chapter is followed by a section of translation and reading exercises with vocabulary lists. A description of the ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan kingdom is provided in an introduction. An answer key to the exercises and several appendices are to be found in the back of the book. The Dzongkha textbook comes with a set of audio compact disks in a multibox, containing a digital soundtrack narrated by a native speaker of the prestige dialect of Dzongkha from western Bhutan. Book and cd's are sold as a set and are not available separately. An essential book for anyone who wants to learn Dzongkha. incl. appendices & bibliogr. and 3 cd's
Author | : Picus Sizhi Ding |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004279776 |
Download A Grammar of Prinmi Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut. Picus Ding examines in the grammar the phonology (both segmental and suprasegmental), morphology, syntax and information structure of Prinmi, with two sample texts and an English-Prinmi glossary provided in appendices. Some noteworthy features of Prinmi include a wealth of clitics (appearing as proclitic, enclitic, mesoclitic or endoclitic), a lexical tone system akin to Japanese, and a collection of existential verbs that discriminates concreteness, animacy, and location.
Author | : Christina Willis Oko |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2019-08-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004409491 |
Download A Grammar of Darma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
Author | : George van Driem |
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Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1998 |
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