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The role of The United Nations regarding Sino-Tibetan conflinct

open access: yes, 2020
The United Nations aims to maintain peace and international safety, growth of international relations and advocates for respecting human rights. In relationship of the above, it takes actions against Sino-Tibetan conflict.
Zaborowska, Justyna
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Li Fang-Kuei (1902-1987)

open access: yes, 2010
Fang-Kuei Li was one of the foremost scholars of Thai and Sino-Tibetan studies and a major contributor to Amerind studies. Born in China, he was one of the early scholars sent to the United States to study.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Forage plants in grasslands with different topographies affect yak foraging preferences on the eastern Tibetan plateau

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science
Diet selection, a core problem of foraging behavior, is a nutritional adaptation strategy formed in the long-term natural selection process by grazing herbivores and is significant for the sustainable management of grassland.
Jinlan Wang   +6 more
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Sino-Tibetan Languages

open access: yes, 2006
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. Geographically it stretches from Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh, and northern Thailand in the southeast, throughout the Tibetan plateau to the north, across most of China ...
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Tibetan rtswa ‘grass'

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, Guillaume Jacques proposes that the Old Tibetan semi-vowel -w- as part of a word onset is secondary, and that it has its origin in words ending in -u followed by -ba: he supposes the evolution Cu-ba Cuwa Cwa, for instance zwa ‘nettle ...
Laurent Sagart
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BOOK NOTICE: THE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OF TIBETAN, BURMESE, AND CHINESE (2019)

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
In this historical linguistic treatise, Hill utilizes comparative linguistic data from Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese—three related languages with ancient literary traditions—to summarize the historical phonological relationships among these languages ...
Nathan Hill
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Re-thinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages

open access: yes, 2013
Sino-Tibetan has more speakers than any other language phylum, and covers a major proportion of the land area of East Asia. Despite some two centuries of study and publication, the subclassification of Sino-Tibetan remains highly controversial, as does ...
Blench, Roger   +4 more
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SOUTH TIBET (TAWANG) IN SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2015
The article is devoted to the study of the special situation concerning Tawang region (is a part of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, otherwise - Southern Tibet) in the Sino-Indian relations.
Rui Zhong
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Relative clause structures in the Rawang language

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses the types of relative clause and noun complement structures found in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, as well as their origin and uses, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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