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Signatures of high altitude adaptation in Tibeto‐Burman tribes of the Darjeeling Hill Region

American Journal of Human Biology, 2023
The long‐term isolation, endogamy practices, and environmental adaptations have shaped the enormous human diversity in India. The genetic and morphological variations in mainland Indians are well studied.
Saptaparni De, Divyanshu Rai, Shishir Tamang, R. Sherpa, Soni Subba, Dup Tshering Lepcha, Periyasamy Govindaraj, K. Thangaraj, G. Chaubey, Rakesh Tamang   +9 more
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The sounds of Tawrã (Digaru-Mishmi), a Tibeto-Burman language

, 2021
The present study is a phonological analysis of the segments and tones of the Tawrã language (ISO 69-3: mhu; Glottolog: Diga1241), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and in Tibet, China.
J. Evans, Johakso Manyu
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Reported speech in earthquake narratives from six Tibeto-Burman languages

Studies About Languages, 2020
This paper is an analysis of the use of reported speech in six Tibeto-Burman languages from two closely-related sub-branches (Tamangic and Tibetic). The data come from a set of interview narratives about people’s experiences of the 2015 earthquakes ...
Lauren Gawne, Kristine A. Hildebrandt
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A network analysis of the semantic evolution of ‘fruit’ and ‘stone’ in Tibeto-Burman languages

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
The lexemes ‘fruit’ and ‘stone’ are known as the origins of the numeral classifiers for small round objects in many Tibeto-Burman languages. This paper employs a correlation-based network construction method to investigate the colexification networks of ...
Yu Li, Mengyang Qiu
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Spoken Language Identification of Four Tibeto-Burman languages

Oriental COCOSDA International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, 2020
Bodo, Dimasa, Rabha and Tiwa are languages of the Tibeto-Burman language family. These languages are spoken in north-east India and surrounding areas. Bodo is also one of the 22 official languages of the Government of India. Consequently, spoken language
Joyshree Chakraborty, Priyankoo Sarmah, Samudra Vijaya   +2 more
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Reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic network on Tibeto-Burman languages in China

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2020
:In order to test and analyze the model of phylogenetic network of Tibeto- Burman languages, this study tried to reconstruct the phylogenetic network of Tibeto-Burman languages using the NeighborNet method. The materials in use were the 100 core cognates
T. Gao
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Tibeto-Burman tonogenetics

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1977
The field of Tibeto-Burman tonogenetics is a very young one, and it might seem premature to attempt a survey of its achievements. It will appear very quickly that the present essay does not aim at drawing conclusions. Rather it is conceived as a portfolio of case histories which can be drawn upon a s source of new hypotheses to be applied to the many ...
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The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh

Linguistics of the TIbeto-Burman Area, 2020
This paper presents a description and analysis of segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by almost 4,000 people in the southeast of Bangladesh. Hyow demonstrates phonological features which are absent in other Chin
Muhammad Zakaria
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The Kinship Terminology of the Dimasa: Alternate Generation Equivalence in the Tibeto-Burman Area

Anthropological Linguistics, 2019
:Most languages of the Bodo-Garo cluster of the Tibeto-Burman family exhibit kinship terminologies that are built upon the principle of seniority and incorporate terminological equivalences between agnatic kin of alternate generations. Interestingly, the
Pascal Bouchery, Monali Longmailai
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