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Issues in Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics
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Year: 2009 Publisher: National Museum of Ethnology

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Issues in Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics.
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ISSN: 03876004 ISBN: 9784901906715 Year: 2009 Publisher: Osaka National Museum of Ethnology

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A grammar of Anong : language death under intense contact
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ISBN: 1282602373 9786612602375 9047430301 9789047430308 9789004176867 9004176861 9781282602373 6612602376 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.


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A grammar of Dhimal
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ISBN: 1282401289 9786612401282 9047429176 9789047429173 9789004175730 9004175733 6612401281 9781282401280 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of Āṭhiyābārī, the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.


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Communist Multiculturalism : Ethnic Revival in Southwest China
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ISBN: 9780295989099 9780295989082 0295989092 0295989084 0295800410 9780295800417 Year: 2009 Publisher: University of Washington Press

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The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing groups that threaten the nation's unity or its modernizing goals. In Communist Multiculturalism, Susan K. McCarthy examines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nationbuilding and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s. She reveals that Chinese government policy is shaped by perceptions of what constitutes an authentic cultural group and of the threat ethnic minorities may constitute to national interests. These minority groups fit no clear categories but rather are practicing both their Chinese citizenship and the revival of their distinct cultural identities. For these groups, being minority is, or can be, one way of being national.Minorities in the Chinese state face a paradox: modern, cosmopolitan, sophisticated people -- good Chinese citizens, in other words -- do not engage in unmodern behaviors. Minorities, however, are expected to engage in them.

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