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ISBN: 9004233458 9789004233454 9789004232020 9004232028 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill
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While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion.
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ISBN: 9004246126 1299816975 9781299816978 9789004246126 9789004235274 9004235272 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,
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Winner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Great Andamanese, a moribund language spoken on the Andamanese Islands belonging to India in the Bay of Bengal. This important documentation covers all major areas of the grammar of Great Andamanese and gives us a first detailed look at this unique language, which is on the verge of extinction. Of particular interest here is the discussion of the body division class markers which play an important role throughout much of the grammar and which are documented in this volume for the first time. The volume will be of interest for general linguists from the fields of linguistic typology and areal linguistics as well as those interested in South Asian languages in general.
Andamanese language --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages. --- Ethnology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Grammar. --- Andaman Islands (India) --- Andamans (India) --- Languages. --- Etymology.
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ISBN: 9789004223691 900422369X 9789004242166 9004242163 1299104894 Year: 2013 Volume: 28 Publisher: Leiden BRILL
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The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.
S15/1300 --- S11/1226 --- China: Language--Other languages in China --- China: Social sciences--Zhuang-Tai --- Chinese language --- Zhuang language --- Chinese characters --- Chinois (Langue) --- Zhuang (Langue) --- Writing --- Writing. --- Ecriture --- Caractères --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages --- Chuang language --- Tai languages --- Zhuang language.
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