Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 6: A Grammar of the Thangmi Language (2 Vols)

With an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-15526-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5/6, 1002 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1905 g

Reihe: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakh? and Sindhup?lcok in central-eastern Nepal. The language is spoken by upwards of 25,000 people belonging to an ethnic group of the same name. The Thangmi are one of Nepal’s least documented communities.
The book is comprised of three sections: a grammatical description of the Dolakh? dialect of Thangmi, a collection of glossed oral texts and a lexicon with relevant examples. In addition, the reader will find an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture.
For students and scholars of anthropology and linguistics, this study is a compelling illustration of the interweaving of these disciplines in the context of Himalayan studies.
With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Zielgruppe

All those interested in language documentation, ethnolinguistics, South Asian ethnography, and Himalayan studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turin, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Turin, Ph.D. (2006) in Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University, is a linguistic anthropologist. A Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, Turin directs the Digital Himalaya and World Oral Literature Projects.