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The language of Akha ritual texts
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1991This conference paper handout discusses the problems that the author had analyzing the Death Ritual texts from a grammatical point of view as it pertains to historical grammar and phonology. Working from a recorded version of the Death Ritual done by the author.
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2016
The Akha constitute the relatively poor end of the hill tribe spectrum, but they have a wide range of feasts that employ the available surplus production. This chapter shows how Akha feasts support the economic, ritual, and sociopolitical organization of communities.
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The Akha constitute the relatively poor end of the hill tribe spectrum, but they have a wide range of feasts that employ the available surplus production. This chapter shows how Akha feasts support the economic, ritual, and sociopolitical organization of communities.
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Object-verb in Akha: the ABB structure
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1996This journal article discusses the structure, syntax, and semantics of noun/object-verb constructions in which the verb has the same phonetic shape as the second syllable (aka cognate object constructions) in Akha. The author illustrates this phenomenon with words whose origin is in monosyllabic and disyllabic nouns, as well as syllables with the ...
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Descent, Alliance, and Political Order among Akha
American Ethnologist, 1998This article explores the way patrilineal descent and affinity intersect and interlock with the political system among Tibeto‐Burman‐speaking Akha highlanders of mainland Southeast Asia. In contrast to Leach's famous work on the Kachin of Burma, the Akha case suggests that asymmetric alliance is not only compatible with egalitarian political ...
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Phonemes of the Alu Dialect of Akha
2015PHONEMES OF THE ALU DIALECT OF AKHA. 35 0. THE AKHA TRIBE AND THE AKHA LANGUAGE 36 1. PHONEMES OF THE ALU DIALECT OF AKHA 38 1.1. A Résumé 38 1.2. Syllabic structure 38 1.3. Syllable-initial consonants 39 1.4. Syllable-medial vowels 40 1.5. Syllable-final consonants 41 1.6. Tones 42 1.7. Limitation of distributions of phonemes 42 1.8. Phonetic analysis
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A comparison of Akha, Hani, Khàtú and Pîjɔ̀
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1989This article compares the cognate forms and phoneme inventories of four Lolo-Burmese languages: Akha (Thailand), Hani (Kunming, China), Khàtú (Kunming, China), and Pìj̀ɔ̀ (Kunming, China). It includes tables and lists of finals, initials (velar, fricative, laryngeal), tones, rhymes (open, nasal, final).
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Akha : a transformational description
1969Akha is one of the better known of the lesser known Sino-Tibetan languages. As the case has been put in the Sino-Tibetan fascicles of Anthropological Linguistics, Sino-Tibetan is a cover term for a large number of languages showing strong grammatical affinities and lexical cognates.
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Cross-Border Mobility and Social Networks: Akha Caravan Traders
2000The development of new infrastructure linking the northern margins of Southeast Asia with the southern perimeter of China is retracing historical trade routes that once connected the indigenous peoples of the region. This chapter is an attempt to provide some empirical evidence of Akha1 cross-border trading activities between southwest China, Myanmar,2
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