Brill, 2004. — xxxii, 904 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/2). This book is more than the first comprehensive description of the fascinating and complex (endangered) language of the Wambule Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal; it is a true model for a holistic approach on language documentation, where the phonetics,...
Brill, 2005. — xxvi, 406 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/3). This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the...
Brill, 2006. — xvi, 288 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/4). This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. It contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax as well as sample texts, verbal paradigms, and a Kulung-English lexicon. The data...
Assam University Silchar, 2016. — 254 p. The present research work entitled “A Descriptive Grammar of Toto” is the synchronic study of Toto, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Alipurduar District of West Bengal. Shafer (1974) stated that Toto belongs to the Jalpaiguri group of the Barish Section within the Baric Subdivision of Sino-Tibetan. The closest linguistics relatives of...
Australian Catholic University, 2020. — 316 p. This thesis examines the nature and scope of linguistic variation within and beyond the Bantawa language and uses it to investigate Bantawa history. Bantawa-speaking communities are spread west-to-east across 200 km of the Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal and into neighbouring north-eastern India. The patterns of linguistic...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2003. — 265 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 20). Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important subgroup of the Kiranti group of Tibeto-Burman languages. This dictionary, based on material obtained in the context of the Linguistic Survey of Nepal, concise though it is, stands out as the most...
Brill, 2009. — 633 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume: 5/8). 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...
Cornell University, 1975. — xii + 254 p. The present work concentrates on the ordinary Thulung language as spoken in everyday life. The language used in rituals is quite distinct. It focuses primarily on the dialect spoken in the old part of Mukli village. The analytical approach and terminology are more or less traditional and no attempt has been made for instance at rigorous...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. — xx + 452 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 10). Comprehensive grammar of Dumi, a member of the Kiranti subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family.
Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, 2008. — xvii + 311 p. For the purpose of this study, a basic lexical database (including simple words, compounds, other phrasal units and sentences) were collected from native speakers, as well as a finder list and texts in the language. This is the final draft of the language documentation. In this work, 3,100 entries are...
LINCOM-Europa, 1997. — 76 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 103). Chamling is a Kiranti language spoken by approximately 10,000 people in a remote area of Eastern Nepali. The number of speakers is rapidly decreasing, as the language is no longer learned by children. Chamling has SOV word order and split ergativity, with 1st and 2nd person construed in an accusative...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015. — xvii, 603 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 7). — ISBN: 978-3-946234-11-1. This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on...
Berkeley: University of California, 2004. — 25 p. — (Himalayan Linguistics Archive 1)
This typological overview of Thulung Rai (Eastern Nepal) is the first description of the language to be based on new field data since Allen's 1975 Sketch of Thulung Grammar. The author collected the current data in 1999-2000 and the differences reveal the intense contact situation with Nepali...
Berkeley: University of California, 2009. — 33 p. — (Himalayan Linguistics Archive 4). Koyi Rai is a previously undescribed language of the Kiranti group of the Himalayan branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koyi, also referred to by speakers as Koyu or Kohi, is spoken in the Khotang district in Eastern Nepal, near the headwaters of the Rawa Khola, in the villages of Sungdel and, to a...
S.l, s.a. — 653 p.
Dhimal is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 20,000 people of the same name in the lowland districts of Jhāpā and Moraṅ in southeastern Nepal at about 26° latitude and 87°-88° longitude east. In the areas in which the Dhimal are concentrated, they constitute a minority and make up less than 10% of the local population. Dhimal can be divided into two...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 318 р. — (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/7). 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...
2008. — 85 p. Kiranti-Bayung is a minority language spoken by a dwindling number of Bayung speakers of Wallo Kirant 'Hither/Near Kirat' from Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbhu districts of eastern Nepal. Like Kiranti-Kõits (exonym: Sunuwar/Mukhia) a sister-neighbouring language, Bayung is gradually vanishing as about 900 adults and fewer youths have the knowledge of this language. The...
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