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A Phonological Study of Rongpa Choyul

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
This paper presents a detailed description of the phonology of the Rongpa variety of Choyul, an understudied Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Lithang (理塘) County, Dkarmdzes (甘孜) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China. Based on firsthand
Jingyao Zheng
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Non-Tibeto-Burman features in PaTani [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
This paper highlights some of the striking phonological features found in PaTani (a Tibeto-Burman language): retroflex consonants; murmured consonants; and high rising, level and glottalized tones.
Sharma, Suhnu R.
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Notes on Tibeto-Burman consonant clusters [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
In the People's Republic of China, there are more than thirty Tibeto-Burman languages, some having early written records e.g., Written Tibetan and Xixia, which are important to research on Tibeto-Burman consonant clusters.
Sun, Hongkai
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My work in Tibeto-Burman linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
I began my study of Tibeto-Burman languages in October of 1952 at the Central Institute for Nationality Studies (CINS) in Beijing. I graduated in June 1956 with a degree in Jingpo studies.
Dai, Qingxia
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A linguistically informed autosomal STR survey of human populations residing in the greater Himalayan region.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The greater Himalayan region demarcates two of the most prominent linguistic phyla in Asia: Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European. Previous genetic surveys, mainly using Y-chromosome polymorphisms and/or mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms suggested a ...
Thirsa Kraaijenbrink   +21 more
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A Study of Tenselessness in Rengma (Western)

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
Rengma is a Tibeto−Burman language from the Naga group (Angami−Pochuri) spoken in Northeast India. The paper is one of the first attempts in documenting the Western Rengma language, a variety of Rengma found in Karbi Anglong district, Assam ...
Monali Longmailai
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Colour Terms in Tibeto-Burman Languages

open access: yesRocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies, 2019
In their handling of colour, Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan region show multiple lexical similarities to one another as well as apparent influences from more dominant languages such as Hindi, Nepali, Tibetan, and Chinese. As an understudied family, Tibeto-Burman languages also serve as an important site to explore modern colour theory and ...
Turin, Mark, Chung, Benjamin
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A benchmark dataset for printed Meitei/Meetei script character recognition

open access: yesData in Brief, 2022
The Manipuri language is the official language of the Indian state of Manipur. The language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family of languages. A benchmark Meitei/Meetei script printed document images dataset is presented in this article.
Yanglem Loijing Khomba Khuman   +4 more
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The Historical Dynamics of Morphological Complexity in Trans-Himalayan

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2015
An examination of morphological complexity in Himalayan ...
Scott DeLancey
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Contemporary traces of the verb suffix *-s of Proto-Tibeto-Burman [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
There existed in Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) a verb suffix *-s. It was used to show that the action denoted by a verb has been performed or completed. The existence of this suffix can be seen in contemporary markers of the past tense, the .yixing aspect or
Bufan, Huang
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