TY - BOOK ID - 85465775 TI - North East Indian linguistics. AU - Morey, Stephen AU - Post, Mark PY - 2010 SN - 8175968559 8175967145 PB - New Delhi : Foundation Books, DB - UniCat KW - India, Northeastern KW - Tibeto-Burman languages KW - Northeast India KW - Northeastern India KW - Languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465775 AB - North East Indian Linguistics Volume 2 is the second in a series of selected papers presented at the International Conferences of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS), a forum for the study of the languages of North East India. The North East Indian languages are the richest and most diverse, yet also one of the least-well-known regions of the linguistics world.The book essentially discusses tonology and phonology in the Assam floodplain. They bring together extensive information on tone in Bodo and Dimasa, studies of Tai Phake songs, the Ahom Bar Amra manuscripts, and the Barpetia dialect of Assamese. A special section on numerals also presents a comparative study of Tibeto-Burman numeral systems and more detailed accounts of Khasi, Karbi, Kom and Aimol. ER -