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Naawa (Sankhuwasabha, Nepal) - Language Snapshot
Language Documentation and Description, 2021 Naawa is a Tibeto-Burman language with Bodish language features that is spoken in five villages in the north-eastern Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal and two villages in the Shigatse region of southern China.
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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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Hierarchical person marking in Rawang [PDF]
, 2010 Rawang (Rvwàng) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the far north of Myanmar (Burma), and is closely related to the Dulong language spoken in China.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The evolution of a Tibeto-Burman pronominal verb morphology: a case-study from Kham (Nepal) [PDF]
, 1975 Kham is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dhaulagiri and Rapti Zones of west-central Nepal by an estimated 30 or 40 thousand so-called "Magars" of the four northern subtribes--the Bhuda, Gharti, Pun, and Rokha.
Watters, David E.
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Phonological Sketch of the Sida Language of Luang Namtha, Laos [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This paper describes the phonology of the Sida language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 3,900 people in Laos and Vietnam. The data presented here are the variety spoken in Luang Namtha province of northwestern Laos, and focuses on a ...
Nathan Badenoch, Hayashi Norihiko
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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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Pronominal verb morphology in Tibeto-Burman [PDF]
, 1974 The Most commonly proferred typological evaluation of Tibeto-Durman (T-h) as a language family characterizes it as consisting of monosyllabic roots strung together into higher syntactic organizations in an analytic manner, there being little if any ...
Bauman, Jim
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EncyclopediaSinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Western Rengma (Karbi Anglong, India) – Language Snapshot
Language Documentation and Description, 2020 Western Rengma (Terüpvunyu /tərYɸuɲu/) is an undocumented Angami-Pochuri language from the Tibeto-Burman language family. Preliminary fieldwork was conducted during April 2018 in Karbi Anglong district, Assam, India to document the language and ...
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Voiceless Nasal Sounds in Three Tibeto-Burman Languages [PDF]
, 2018 Voiceless Nasal Sounds in Three Tibeto-Burman Languages : This paper focuses on two types of voiceless nasal sounds in Xumi, a Tibeto-Burman language: (1) the voiceless aspirated nasals /m̥/ [m̥h̃] and /n̥/ [n̥h̃]; and (2) the voiceless nasal glottal ...
Chirkova, Katia
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