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Ethnolinguistic associations and genetic diversity of rice landraces in Nagaland, India
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 452-469, March 2024.Preserving and conserving crop landraces, tended by indigenous farming communities, is crucial for future food security. This research focused on rice landrace diversity in the north‐eastern Himalayan region of Nagaland, India, where Naga communities cultivate rice according to their dietary and cultural preferences. Rice diversity is closely linked to
Somnath Roy +9 more
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, 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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World Affairs, Volume 187, Issue 1, Page 118-122, Spring 2024.Abstract A caste is one of the conventional four social strata into which Hindu society seperates its members. The scriptures from ancient India make reference to it. The four classes are the Brahmins (priestly people), the Kshatriyas (rulers, administrators, and warriors; also known as Rajanyas), the Vaishyas (artisans, merchants, businessmen, and ...
Md Nurul Momen, Md Abu Shahen
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The copula and existential verbs in Qiang [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan ...
Huang, Chenglong, LaPolla, Randy J.
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Comparison constructions in Lizu (Tibeto-Burman)
Faits de langues, 2019 : This paper focuses on the morphosyntax of comparison constructions in Lizu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Southwest China. The paper has two goals: (1) to provide a synchronic description of four types of comparison constructions: (i) comparative ...
Katia Chirkova
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The how and why of syntactic relations [PDF]
, 2010 Human communication takes place when one person does something that when seen or heard by another person is taken to be done with the intention to communicate, and the other person, having seen the communicator show his or her intention to communicate ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Analysis and Evaluation of Tibeto-Burman Population from Northeast India: An Anthropometric Study
Indian Journal of Dental ResearchObjective: To analyse the facial proportions of the Indian population belonging to the Tibeto-Burman population from Northeast India. Materials and Methods: An anthropometric cross-sectional cohort study was conducted on Indian population enrolling ...
Uday Kiran Uppada +2 more
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A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang – Three Kham Varieties [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This paper compares the phonologies of Gamāle, Sheram and Ghusbāng, three closely related southern varieties of Khām. The vowel and consonant inventories, suprasegmentals and phonotactics of each variety is described in turn, after which the ...
Christopher P. Wilde
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Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022 Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language mostly spoken in Dima Hasao and Cachar districts of Assam and Dimapur district of Nagaland. Most Dimasa roots are monosyllabic, but due to the highly agglutinating feature of them, multimorphemic words are employed more
Aleendra Brahma
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Anti-ergative' marking in Tibeto-Burman
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1992 Using arguments based on the data on verb agreement (pronominalization) in Tibeto-Burman, LaPolla 1989 (see also LaPolla 1992) argues that Proto-Tibeto-Burman should be reconstructed as a language with no inflectional morphology. In that paper it is argued that the Proto-Tibeto- Burman system of grammatical relations1 was closer to the typical 'role ...
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