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A candidate for a Tibeto-Burman innovation
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2017Based on a survey of 21 languages chosen to represent the diversity of Sino-Tibetan, this paper proposes that all Sino-Tibetan languages except Chinese have lost a phonological distinction between two Proto-Sino-Tibetan codas, *-q (Old Chinese *-ʔ, dialectally *-k) and *-k (Old Chinese *-k): the two codas merged as *-k in Proto-Tibeto-Burman.
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Questions of method in Chinese-tibeto-burman comparison
Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1995It is argued that the reconstructed Tibeto-Burman vocabulary includes an important layer of Chinese loanwords. Some examples are presented.
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Direction and associated motion in Tibeto-Burman
Linguistic Typology, 2021Carol Genetti +2 more
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