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Tibeto-Burman Languages Page Straightforward geographical considerations would suggest as a center of dispersal for the Tibeto-Burman languages somewhere in eastern Tibet. This page has lots of goodies, including a good outline of the Sino-Tibetan family and the Tibeto-Burman languages, and an extensive (though not comprehensive) bibliography of work on ST/TB, as well as a description of the STEDT project itself. TB languages are found from Sichuan and Qinghai in the north to the southern extremity of Myanmar, and from northwestern Vietnam in the east to northern Pakistan in the west. www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/tb.html

Section 3 There have been several attempts to classify the Tibeto-Burman languages, for example, Shafer (1955, 1966, 1967, 1974), Benedict (1972), Thurgood (1985) and Nishi (1990). It includes Tibetan, which is one of the two best known Tibeto-Burman languages (the other being Burmese) and West Himalayish languages, which are some of the least documented languages among the Tibeto-Burman language family. The Tibeto-Kinnauri languages considered in this monograph are Tibetan, Kinnauri, Pa tÁ www.lingfil.uu.se /personal/anjusaxena/kinnauri.html

Tibeto-Burman Historical Grammar The central importance of flexional morphology in Tibeto-Burman was not fully appreciated until the appearance in 1975 of James John Bauman's Pronouns and Pronominal Morphology in Tibeto-Burman. In terms of numbers of speakers, the Tibeto-Burman language family is the largest language family in the world after Indo-European. Comparison of the morphemically analysed conjugations of five Kiranti languages led to the development of a model of the Proto-Kiranti verb (van Driem 1990a). iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/himalaya/individ/kirmor.html

TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES - LoveToKnow Article on TIBETO-BURMAN LANGUAGES The same is the case with Kachin and some Nagg dialects, while the remaining Tibeto-Burman languages apparently agree with such Tibetan dialects as are devoid of tones. This development can still be followed in the Tibeto-Burman languages. The Tibeto-Burman family comprises a long series of dialects spoken from Tibet in the north to Burma in the south, and from the Ladkh wathrat of Kashmir in the west to the Chinese provinces of Sze-chuen and Yunnan in the east. www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TI/TIBETO_BURMAN_LANGUAGES.htm

STEDT: The Sino-Tibetan Family A further complication is the fact that many language names are used in both a narrower and a broader sense, sometimes referring to one specific language, but often to a whole group of linguistically or culturally related languages. Extensive lexical and grammatical material has been collected on a dozen languages of the Qiangic group (Lu Shaozun 1980; Sun 1981, 1985, 1990). A.D. British scholars and colonial administrators in India and Burma began to study some of the dozens of little-known "tribal" languages of the region that seemed to be genetically related to the two great literary languages, Tibetan and Burmese. stedt.berkeley.edu /html/STfamily.html

SIL Bibliography: Language classification McElhanon, Kenneth A. "Lexicostatistics and the classification of Huon Peninsula languages." McElhanon, Kenneth A. A classification of the languages of the Morobe province, Papua New Guinea, with the linguistic situation of individual villages. Clouse, Duane A. "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya." www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=LCL

Burmese The Sino-Tibetan language family consists of the Chinese, or Sinitic, languages (dialects), all spoken in China, and several hundred Tibeto-Burman languages spoken as far west as Pakistan and as far east as Vietnam. The most important of the Tibeto-Burman group are Tibetan, the dominant language of Tibet, and Burmese, the official language of Burma. Because of the clear relationship between these agreement markers and the independent pronouns, these languages are often referred to as "pronominalized." Many languages of the family are "ergative," placing case-marking on the subject of a transitive verb, rather than on the object as in most European languages, and leaving transitive objects and intransitive subjects unmarked. thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/burmese.htm

Sino-Tibetan languages -> Tibeto-Burman Languages on Encyclopedia.com 2002 The Tibeto-Burman languages include Tibetan, Burmese, and a number of other tongues, among which are the Bodo, Garo, and Lushai of Assam, the Kachin of Myanmar (Burma), and perhaps also the languages of the Chins and Nagas of Myanmar, the Karen tongues of Myanmar and Thailand, and the Lolo of SW China. Tibeto-Burman languages are likely to be tonal and have anywhere from two to six tones. Sino-Tibetan languages -> Tibeto-Burman Languages on Encyclopedia.com 2002 www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/SinoTibe_Tibeto-BurmanLanguages.asp

Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Sorted by Author Gerard, A. A vocabulary of the Kunawar languages. Language Variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, ed by David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood. Language Variation: Papers on Variation and Change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in Honour of James A. Matisoff. victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib/author.html

John Benjamins: Book details for Tibeto-Burman Tonology [CILT 54] This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. Tonal comparison of Lolo-Burmese with other tibeto-Burman languages This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT+54

Tibeto-Burman languages (from Sino-Tibetan languages) --  Encyclopædia Britannica Tibeto-Burman languages are spoken in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma); in the Himalayas, including the countries of Nepal and Bhutan and the state of Sikkim, India; in Assam, India, and in Pakistan and Bangladesh; they also are spoken by hill tribes throughout mainland Southeast Asia and central China (the provinces of Kansu, Tsinghai, Szechwan, and Yunnan). More from Britannica on "Tibeto-Burman languages (from Sino-Tibetan languages)"... Tibetic (or Bodic) language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman group of the Sino-Tibetan language family; it is spoken in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and in parts of northern India (including Sikkim). www.britannica.com /eb/article-75004?tocId=75004

fastweb?getdoc+ericdb+ericdb+664826+18+wAAA+Birds The present volume, the third of a four-part report on the Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal, includes text materials on Burung, by Warren Glover; on Tamang, by Doreen Taylor, and on Thakali, by Annemarie Hari and Anita Maibaum. For each language, a list of included texts is given, with the native language divided into sequentially-numbered sentences and followed by a literal English translation, usually morpheme-by-morpheme. Grammatical notes are included at the end of each set of texts, which explain abbreviations and letters in the literal English translation lines and any intonation symbols in the native language lines. eduref.org /plweb-cgi/fastweb?getdoc+ericdb+ericdb+664826+18+wAAA+Birds

Languages of South Asia - ZOGRAPH, G.A. It concentrates on the more southern languages, i.e., Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda groups, with a brief survey of the Tibeto-Burman languages. Wraps, About fifty different languages and dialects are discussed in this survey guide of the languages of Southern Asia covering the Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan). Has index of various languages included, linguistic maps of area, and bibliography. www.antiqbook.com /boox/bok/10884.shtml

Articles - Sino-Tibetan languages The Kusunda language of western Nepal is often thought to a remnant of the pre-Tibetoburman indigenous languages of the southern Himalayas. Many of the languages are tonal, which however is usually considered to be an areal feature rather than evidence of a genealogical relationship. Sino-Tibetan languages form a language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, second only to Indo-European in terms of the number of speakers. gaple.com /articles/Sino-Tibetan_languages?...

Tibeto-Burman languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Following is a partial listing of Tibeto-Burman languages. Approximately six million Tibetans speak one of several related languages. The subfamily includes approximately 350 languages; Burmese has the most speakers (approximately 32 million). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tibeto-Burman_languages

Scott DeLancey Curriculum Vitae Proceedings of the 1993 Mid-America Linguistics Conference and Conference on Siouan/Caddoan Languages, pp. LSA Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, 1994-6 (Chair, 1995-6) Co-organizer (with Victor Golla): Comparative Penutian Workshop (University of Oregon, June 27-July 8, 1994). Organized: 17th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Sept. 7-9, 1984. www.uoregon.edu /~delancey/cv.html

www.hani-akha.org The script for writing the Akha language is described briefly in the Akha language section. He is still a main Akha language and culture specialist and trainer (See DIARA and DORESAKA). Much of this website is in English language, but several parts are also in Akha as this website is equally made for our own people.We are also working with Thai, Chinese and Dutch translations. www.hani-akha.org /mpcd/index.html

The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Tibeto-Burman You have reached the page with additional Tibeto-Burman languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. Languages on this page so far are Adi, Akha, Bahing, Balti, Bantawa, Burmese, Karen, Kham, Ladakhi, Newari, and Tibeto-Burman Languages. A number of languages comprise this branch including Burmese, Karen, Ladakhi, Lepcha, Newari, Sikkim, Tibetan, and Yi. www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/otibburh.htm

Ethnologue report for Myanmar Speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages: 28,877,000 or 78% of the population, Daic languages 2,778,900 or 9.6%, Austro-Asiatic languages 1,934,900 or 6.7%, Hmong-Mien languages 6,000 (1991 J. Matisoff). Of those, 108 are living languages and 1 is extinct. Other Chin languages or dialects of this area are Saizang, Teizang, Zo (Zome). www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Myanmar

recrubs This book on the pre-modern Tibeto-Burman languages represents a movement to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. An exhaustive bibliography of works and their translations in Indian and foreign languages and a select bio-critical notices enhance the scope of this unique encyclopaedia. Captivated by the land and its people, she spent much of her time there for the next quarter of a century, intensively and repeatedly travelling all over Ladakh on foot or on horseback, befriending the villagers and making the notes and tape-recordings that from the basis of this study. nelc.ohio-state.edu /news/folklore/yr2002/vol17num3/recrubs.cfm

Mahakiranti Lexical Database An ongoing research initiative of the Himalayan Languages Project is the compilation of a lexical database of the Kiranti and other Tibeto-Burman languages investigated by the research team. As the Himalayan Languages Project expands its field of investigations into northeastern India, the precise contours will be outlined of the various subgroups and primary taxa which are now collectively referred to as Western Tibeto-Burman. This database is intended to serve as a resource for the historical comparative study of Tibeto-Burman languages and the resolution of issues of Tibeto-Burman phylogeny. iias.leidenuniv.nl /host/himalaya/individ/mld.html

LINGUIST List 12.2828: Tibeto-Burman languages Message 1: Tibeto-Burman languages: Rawang Texts, LaPolla and Poa Subject: Tibeto-Burman languages: Rawang Texts, LaPolla and Poa Rawang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately fifty thousand people who live in northern Kachin State, Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys just south and east of Tibet. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/12/12-2828.html

The Ultimate Kusunda - American History Information Guide and Reference It is sometimes classified as belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family, but several researchers consider it to be a language isolate. To many Nepalis, the Kusundas are stereotyped as barbaric cannibals, perhaps due to the Chepang's assumption that when a Kusunda come across a Chepang, the former had the intention of killing the latter. The Kusunda or Ban Raja (people of the forest) are a tribe of people ethnically related to the Chepang, but unlike the Chepang who dwell in mud houses, the few hundred Kusundas dwell in the forest. www.historymania.com /american_history/Kusunda

Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures Much is owed to Frank Huffman's Bibliography and index of mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1986), particularly for many of the more obscure references and many of the notes which follow the references in brackets. Some of the larger languages have sub-headings for dialect, such as "Tibetan, Lhasa" and "Tibetan, Amdo". In the bibliography sorted by language name, certain choices about which language name to use for the heading had to be made. victoria.linguistlist.org /~lapolla/bib

Find in a Library: Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages proceedings of a symposium held in Leiden, June 26, 2000, at the Ninth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages proceedings of a symposium held in Leiden, June 26, 2000, at the Ninth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies Find in a Library: Medieval Tibeto-Burman languages proceedings of a symposium held in Leiden, June 26, 2000, at the Ninth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/8a1c08caa4fff92fa19afeb4da09e526.html

Announcements in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area This 800-page volume is a clear and readable presentation of the current state of research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia. STEDT Monograph 3 contains phonological information on over 150 Tibeto- Burman languages and dialects, gathered from numerous published and unpublished sources. The monograph is indexed by language and dialect name, by subgroup and by STEDT source abbreviation, making it a convenient and invaluable resource for the Tibeto-Burman linguist. stedt.berkeley.edu /ltba/announce.html

LINGUIST List 15.2467: Language Description: Genetti et al Hildebrandt's grammar and glossary of Manange, of the Tamangic branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family, and Barbara Kelly's grammar and glossary of Sherpa, of the Tibetan (Bodish) branch. The current volume provides grammars, glossaries and texts for two of these languages: Kristine A. Each grammar provides a full description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language, covering both the structural and functional properties of each. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-2467.html

Bai Cultural Web Site - Language Grammatically, modifiers follow modified constituents, which is in line with Tibeto-Burman languages, but curiously, Bai does not have the most important typological feature, namely verb following the object. It is usually classified as Tibeto-Burman, and indeed it has many features which are common to other Tibeto-Burman languages in Yunnan. Superficially Bai appears very similar to the Burmese-Yipho languages which are spoken around it: Bai has many vowels, tones and open syllables. alcor.eastasiagroup.net /bai/en/language.html

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