TY - BOOK ID - 77934716 TI - A grammar of Dhimal PY - 2009 SN - 1282401289 9786612401282 9047429176 9789047429173 9789004175730 9004175733 6612401281 9781282401280 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Dhimal language KW - Dhimal dialect KW - Tibeto-Burman languages KW - Grammar. KW - Grammar UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77934716 AB - 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. ER -