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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.
Dhimal. --- Tulung (Tibeto-Burman people) --- Tulung language. --- Drung (Tibeto-Burman people) --- Du-long (Tibeto-Burman people) --- Tu-lung (Tibeto-Burman people) --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Drung language --- Du-long language --- Tu-lung language --- Tibeto-Burman languages --- Languages.
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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.
Dhimal language --- Dhimal dialect --- Tibeto-Burman languages --- Grammar. --- Grammar
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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.
Tai (Southeast Asian people) --- Bai (Chinese people) --- Hui (Chinese people) --- Thaï (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Bai (Peuple de Chine) --- Hui (Peuple de Chine) --- Yunnan Sheng (China) --- Yunnan (Chine : Sheng) --- Ethnic relations --- Relations interethniques --- S06/0240 --- S11/1215 --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards minorities and autonomous regions --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- Thaï (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Dai (Southeast Asian people) --- Tai race --- Tayok (Southeast Asian people) --- Thai Che (Southeast Asian people) --- Thai Khe (Southeast Asian people) --- Ethnology --- San Chay (Asian people) --- Hui-hui (Chinese people) --- Hwei (Chinese people) --- Chinese --- Muslims --- Labbu (Chinese people) --- Leme (Chinese people) --- Min-chia --- Min-kia-tze (Chinese people) --- Minjia (Chinese people) --- Minkia (Chinese people) --- Nama (Chinese people) --- Pai (Chinese people) --- Pe-tso (Chinese people) --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Yünnan, China (Province) --- Yün-nan sheng (China) --- Yunnan Province (China) --- Yün-nan (China : Province) --- Unnan-shō (China) --- Unnanshō (China) --- Yün-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Yün-nan sheng cheng fu (China) --- Yun Nan Province (China) --- 云南省 (China) --- Ethnic relations. --- Social & cultural anthropology
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