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Tibeto-Burman subgroups and historical grammar [PDF]

, 2011
Several distinct strains of thought on subgrouping, presented in memory of David Watters and Michael Noonan, are united by a golden thread. Tamangic consists of Tamangish and maybe something else, just as Shafer would have wanted it.
van Driem, George
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Language Shift and Endangerment of Mising, a Tani Language in Northeast India

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This study presents a qualitative evaluation of the endangerment level of Mising (ISO 639-3: mrg), a Tibeto-Burman language of the Tani branch, spoken predominantly in the Upper Assam region and parts of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India.
Doley, Normoda, Mittal,Anurag
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Northern Pwo Karen Numeral Classifiers: Semantic Categories and Structures

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2023
Descriptions of the numeral classifier systems of Karenic (Tibeto-Burman) languages are limited to Eastern Kayah (Solnit 1997), Thai Sgaw Karen (Ratanakul 2001), and Kayan (Manson 2010). Thus, this paper aims to expand knowledge about Karenic classifiers
Audra Phillips
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Decoding maternal genetic background of Chinese Tujia people through extensive mitochondrial genome analyses

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IntroductionThe Tujia ethnic group, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family, predominantly resides in the mountainous regions of central and southern China.
Chong Chen, Man Chen, Lintao Luo, Ying Zhu, Hongbing Chen, Minzhu Zhao, Yuhang Cao, Yongguo Li, Li Lan, Chunmei Shen, Jianbo Li   +10 more
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Preliminary Phonology of Rera, a Tangsa Variety of Northeast india

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018
This paper provides a synchronic phonological analysis of the Rera language, a Tangsa language of the Northern Naga subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. It is spoken by approximately 2,000 people in Northeast India.
Dipyoti Goswami
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Lexical Comparisons between Proto-Kuki-Chin and Jinghpaw: Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans Himalayan

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
This paper presents a set of lexical correspondences between Jinghpaw and Proto-Kuki-Chin as reconstructed by ...
Scott DeLancey
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Grammaticalized verbs in Hayu [PDF]

, 1994
This paper aims to discuss the development of garamaticalted verbs (GV henceforth) of Hayu, one of the Tibeto-Burman languages that belong to the Bodic branch (Michailovsky 1988), from the viewpoint of current grammaticalization theories (e.g.
Park, Insun
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Evidentiality in Qiang [PDF]

, 2010
The Qiang language is spoken by about 70,000 (out of 200,000) Qiang people, plus 50,000 people classified as Tibetan by the Chinese government. Most Qiang speakers live in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture on the eastern edge of the Tibetan ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Review of "Das Märchen vom Prinzen Čobzaṅ" [PDF]

, 1986
The volume under review is the sixth in a series on the oral literature of Tibet. Earlier volumes dealt with traditional narrative in central and eastern Tibet, in Amdo and Trayap, among the herdsmen of western Tibet, and, as volume 3 in the series ...
Sprigg, R. K.
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A FIRST LOOK AT CHEN (KONYAK) ARGUMENT AND CLAUSE STRUCTURES

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2021
Chen (Bodo-Konyak-Jingphaw, Tibeto-Burman) is an undocumented language of the Konyak ethnic group. It is spoken in northeast India and northwest Myanmar. This article provides a first description of the Chen simple argument and clause structures.
Hoipo Konyak
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