| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 612 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region, 1568-6183 ; v. 5/8 |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 5/8.
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Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; LIST OF FIGURES; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS.; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO: PHONOLOGY; CHAPTER THREE: NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER FOUR: VERBAL MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER FIVE: THE SENTENCE; TEXT ONE: COURTING; TEXT TWO: CATCHING RATS; TEXT THREE: HUNTING MONITOR LIZARDS; TEXT FOUR: THE LOWLAND STRONG MAN; TEXT FIVE: THE TIGER AND THE YOGI; TEXT SIX: THE SPLITTING OF THE BANANA LEAF; TEXT SEVEN: THE JACKAL AND THE BEAR; TEXT EIGHT: THE SNAKE HUSBAND; TEXT NINE: THE BOY AND THE KING'S DAUGHTER; TEXT TEN: THE EVIL STEPMOTHER |
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TEXT ELEVEN: WHERE CHICKENS COME FROMTEXT TWELVE: SHIT EATER; TEXT THIRTEEN: THE SICK ONE; TEXT FOURTEEN: MAKING RICE BEER; TEXT FIFTEEN: WEDDING CEREMONY; TEXT SIXTEEN: ASARE CELEBRATION; TEXT SEVENTEEN: LATER CLAN WORSHIP DURING PARBA; RIDDLES; SONGS; INFLEXIONAL PARADIGMS; KINSHIP TERMS; DHIMAL-ENGLISH GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal and northeastern India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-612) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Dhimal language -- Grammar
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
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Grammatik
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Dhimal-Sprache.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009013348 |
| ISBN |
9789047429173 |
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9047429176 |
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9789004175730 |
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9004175733 |
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6612401281 |
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9786612401282 |
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1282401289 |
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9781282401280 |
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