Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010. — 507 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/10). — ISBN 978-90-04-1-7827-4. The research upon which this book is based, was carried out over a period of eight years, from 1991 until 1999. Work was done in Bhutanese communities in several different locations, including eastern Bhutan, Darjeeling and Kalimpong in West Bengal, India, the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 286 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 84). Almost all of the people who can be identified as Chepang by language and culture live in a roughly rectangular area of south-central Nepal, bounded to the north by the Trisuli River, in the west by the Narayani River, to the south by the Rapti River and...
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 2016. — x + 171 p. This book provides the first grammatical description of the Lamjung variety of Yolmo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal. The volume outlines key ethnographic information about the speakers of Lamjung Yolmo, including an account of the historical migration from the Melamchi Valley to low hills in the Lamjung District. The...
Brill, 2020. — xvi, 514 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 24). A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal...
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...
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...
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...
Brill, 2016. — 456 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/17). In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this hitherto poorly documented language of Lamjung, Nepal. The Dura language is effectively extinct, although attempts at revival may be undertaken by well-intentioned members of Dura ethnicity. On the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. — 120 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 53). This paper is an attempt to describe the Lhomi clause by using the nine-cells system as developed by K. Pike and A. Hale. Figure 1 displays the system used in this paper. Box 4 involves the usage of the following three role complexes: actor, undergoer and...
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...
James Cook University, 2021. — 1042 p. Pema Wangdi investigated the Brokpa language spoken in the Eastern Himalayas, and produced a comprehensive grammar of this language, accompanied by a collection of texts. His works dealt with the core areas of this language including its sound system, the structure of words, phrases, and sentences. Linguistic typologists, cultural...
Cambridge University Press 2002. — 477 p. — (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions). 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,...
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...
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