Languages Of The Greater Himalayan Region Volume 1 Rabha

Author : Umbavu Joseph
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047404699

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 1 Rabha by Umbavu Joseph Pdf

The Rabha’s inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Róngdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume. With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light on its people’s customs. With financial support of the International Institute of Asian Studies.

Author : Hongkai Sun,Guangkun Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047430308

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong by Hongkai Sun,Guangkun Liu Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746577616

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong by Anonim Pdf

Author : John T. King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047429173

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal by John T. King Pdf

This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal and northeastern India.

Author : George van Driem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313991369

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Languages of the greater Himalayan region by George van Driem Pdf

Author : Heleen Plaisier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047411598

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha by Heleen Plaisier Pdf

IJCS comprises studies in various cultures on a comparative basis with the aim of reaching a common level of abstraction.

Author : Gerard Tolsma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047418160

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung by Gerard Tolsma Pdf

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 : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514911

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Languages of the Himalayas by George van Driem Pdf

The survey work Languages of the Himalayas provides a bird's eye view of Himalayan languages and language communities. It also constitutes a primary source for much new, hitherto unpublished data on several languages. The demographic mosaic of the Himalayas today is viewed in a historical and comparative linguistic perspective. The reader will find an outline of the historical and prehistorical developments that have determined the modern ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan region, involving various independent linguistics stocks or language families. Maps illustrate the distribution of language communities and trace the routes of ancient migrations. There is an illuminating discussion of grammatical features found in Himalayan languages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047433491

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar by Dörte Borchers Pdf

This description of Sunwar, spoken in eastern Nepal, offers an overview of the language, the culture of its speakers, a collection of glossed texts and a glossary; and it shows how suffix conjugations developed as the result of language contact.

Author : Jan Michiel Otto,G. van Driem
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9087280580

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region by Jan Michiel Otto,G. van Driem Pdf

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 : Graham Thurgood,Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781315399485

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The Sino-Tibetan Languages by Graham Thurgood,Randy J. LaPolla Pdf

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180434

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Owen-Smith,Nathan Hill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110310832

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Trans-Himalayan Linguistics by Thomas Owen-Smith,Nathan Hill Pdf

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. This book brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.

Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514928

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Languages of the Himalayas by George van Driem Pdf