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Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 17, 23 March 2026.This study clarifies the genetic patterns of paternal lineages across East Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia. Han populations are relatively homogeneous, whereas southern ethnolinguistic minorities display regional structures. Shared Y‐chromosome lineages indicate Neolithic expansions and extensive north‐south gene flow, supporting demic diffusion ...
Yunhui Liu +15 more
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Prosodic salience in Anal Naga: where non-arbitrariness, phaticity and engagement meet
Glossa, 2021 The study analyses the form and functions of two closely related non-arbitrary prosodic contours in Anal Naga (ISO 639-3:anm), a Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language of Northeast India.
Pavel Ozerov
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Transitivity and transitivity alternations in Rawang and Qiang [PDF]
, 2010 This paper is more about presenting phenomena and questions related to the concept of transitivity in Tibeto-Burman languages that I hope will stimulate discussion, rather than presenting strong conclusions.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The “Butter Tree” (Diploknema butyracea) for Sustainable Food Systems and Functional Applications
Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2026.The graphical abstract figure highlights Diploknema butyracea, its production as well as its industrial application, traditional use, and pharmacological properties. ABSTRACT Diploknema butyracea, also known as the Himalayan butter tree, is mainly valued for its butter‐producing seeds and ecological significance.
Prekshya Timsina +5 more
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People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 11, Page 2700-2713, November 2025.Abstract Large old trees are important ecological entities in human settlements, providing cultural values and ecological services that are threatened by current and future changes in global climate, land use and disturbance regimes. Some studies suggest incorporating social and cultural significance into the conservation of large old trees.
Zhuo Cheng +5 more
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Parallel grammaticalizations in Tibeto-Burman : evidence of Sapir's 'Drift' [PDF]
, 2010 In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the changes that a language undergoes through time [...]. Dialects of a language are formed when that language is broken into different segments that no longer ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Tibetan Few‐Shot Learning Model With Deep Contextualised Two‐Level Word Embeddings
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 10, Issue 5, Page 1394-1410, October 2025.ABSTRACT Few‐shot learning is the task of identifying new text categories from a limited set of training examples. The two key challenges in few‐shot learning are insufficient understanding of new samples and imperfect modelling. The uniqueness of low‐resource languages lies in their limited linguistic resources, which directly leads to the difficulty ...
Ziyue Zhang +11 more
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Comparative constructions in Rawang [PDF]
, 2010 Dulong and Rawang are closely related Tibeto-Burman languages spoken just south and east of ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Public Health Challenges, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2025.Adolescent pregnancy remains a critical issue in Nepal's marginalized Chepang community. Our study identified key determinants, including limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, elopement marriages, school dropouts, poverty, socio‐cultural norms, fears about post‐contraception fertility, weak enforcement of child marriage laws, and a
Kusumsheela Bhatta +2 more
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, 2010 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.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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