The Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia: The languages, their histories, and genetic relationships. (original) (raw)
2016, The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock and Elena Bashir. [The World of Linguistics, Volume 7.] Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 130-154.
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This research explores the Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia, focusing on their classification, historical development, and genetic relationships. The study provides an overview of linguistic diversity in the region, highlighting the challenges in subgrouping and naming conventions. It reviews current proposals for genetic groupings and discusses outstanding issues and future research directions in the field.
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The Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia: The languages, histories, and genetic classification.
The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide, ed. by Hans Henrich Hock and Elena Bashir. [The World of Linguistics, Volume 7.] Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 130-154., 2016
Designed to be a brief introduction to the Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia. Includes basic information and references on most languages as well as comparisons of current classification schemes of van Driem, Matisoff, Bradley, and Thurgood and LaPolla.
The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeast India
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History of the Scientific Study of the Tibetto-Burman Languages of North-East India
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Linguistics or in other words the scientific study of languages in India is a traditional exercise which is about three thousand years old and occupied a central position of the scientific tradition from the very beginning. The tradition of the scientific study of the languages of the Indo-Aryan language family which are mainly spoken in India's North and NorthWestern part was brought to light with the emergence of the genealogical study of languages by Sir William Jones in the 18 th c. But the linguistic study of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in NorthEastern part of India is of a much later origin. According to the 2011 census there are 45486784 people inhabiting in the states of NorthEast India. They are essentially the speakers of the Tibeto-Burman group of languages along with the Austro-Asiatic and Indo-Aryan groups of languages. Though 1% of the total population of India is the speaker of the Tibeto-Burman group of languages (2001 census) the study of the language and society of this group of people has become essential from the point of view of the socio-political development of the country. But a composite historical account of the scientific enquiries of the Tibeto-Burman group of languages, a prerequisite criterion for the development of the region is yet to be attempted. Therefore, the present paper essentially concentrates on tracing the history of the scientific studies of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in NorthEast region of India.
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