Brill, 2004. — xxxii, 904 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/2). This book is more than the first comprehensive description of the fascinating and complex (endangered) language of the Wambule Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal; it is a true model for a holistic approach on language documentation, where the phonetics,...
Brill, 2005. — xxvi, 406 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/3). This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the...
Brill, 2006. — xvi, 288 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/4). This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. It contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax as well as sample texts, verbal paradigms, and a Kulung-English lexicon. The data...
Assam University Silchar, 2016. — 254 p. The present research work entitled “A Descriptive Grammar of Toto” is the synchronic study of Toto, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Alipurduar District of West Bengal. Shafer (1974) stated that Toto belongs to the Jalpaiguri group of the Barish Section within the Baric Subdivision of Sino-Tibetan. The closest linguistics relatives of...
Australian Catholic University, 2020. — 316 p. This thesis examines the nature and scope of linguistic variation within and beyond the Bantawa language and uses it to investigate Bantawa history. Bantawa-speaking communities are spread west-to-east across 200 km of the Himalayan hills of eastern Nepal and into neighbouring north-eastern India. The patterns of linguistic...
Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics. — 2015. — Vol. 2. Issue 1. — p. 63-86. Several Kiranti languages (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) from different genealogical sub-groups show multiple parallel developments from antipassive constructions with generic, non-specific objects into agreement markers registering first person objects. The developments span a relatively...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2003. — 265 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 20). Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important subgroup of the Kiranti group of Tibeto-Burman languages. This dictionary, based on material obtained in the context of the Linguistic Survey of Nepal, concise though it is, stands out as the most...
Brill, 2009. — 633 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume: 5/8). The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data...
Cornell University, 1975. — xii + 254 p. The present work concentrates on the ordinary Thulung language as spoken in everyday life. The language used in rituals is quite distinct. It focuses primarily on the dialect spoken in the old part of Mukli village. The analytical approach and terminology are more or less traditional and no attempt has been made for instance at rigorous...
Tribhuvan University, 2015. — xxiv + 437 p. This study is an attempt to present a linguistic description of the Koyee language within the framework of functional-typological grammar. Koyee is one of the least studied Kiranti languages of Nepal which is categorized under the Tibeto-Burman language family. The main goal of this study is to analyze the forms and functions of...
SOAS, University of London, 2014. — 485 p. Puma is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of the Kiranti subgroup spoken by approximately 4,000 people in eastern Nepal. This dissertation investigates the phonology and morphosyntax of Puma. Data are presented and analysed from a crosslinguistic typological perspective where possible. The analysis is based mainly on annotated texts...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. — xx + 452 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 10). Comprehensive grammar of Dumi, a member of the Kiranti subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family.
Tribhuvan University, 2016. - xxxii + 548 p. This study presents a linguistic description of the Dumi language within the framework of the functional-typological grammar. Dumi is a poorly described Kiranti language of the Rai group, spoken by an ethnic group 'Dumi' residing mainly in Khotang District. This is a field-based linguistic study of the grammatical features of the...
Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2005. — xxxiii + 603 p. Detailed grammatical description of Kiranti-Kõits (Sunwar), a Western Kiranti language spoken in Nepal.
Central Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, 2008. — xvii + 311 p. For the purpose of this study, a basic lexical database (including simple words, compounds, other phrasal units and sentences) were collected from native speakers, as well as a finder list and texts in the language. This is the final draft of the language documentation. In this work, 3,100 entries are...
LINCOM-Europa, 1997. — 76 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 103). Chamling is a Kiranti language spoken by approximately 10,000 people in a remote area of Eastern Nepali. The number of speakers is rapidly decreasing, as the language is no longer learned by children. Chamling has SOV word order and split ergativity, with 1st and 2nd person construed in an accusative...
Nepali National Languages Preservation Institute, 2006. — 292 p. This dictionary is the product of two years' research in affiliation with the Central Department of linguistics at Tribhuvan University. The goal of the research was to produce a trilingual lexicon by testing various methodologies and software as they relate to dictionary compilation and word elicitation. It is hoped...
University of California, Berkeley, 2002. — ix + 390 p. Thulung Rai is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of eastern Nepal, currently spoken by approximately one thousand people. It is a member of the Kiranti group in the Himalayish branch of Tibeto-Burman, along with languages characterized principally by their complex pronominalizing verbal inflectional systems. This...
Zürich: Die Universität Zürich, 2013. — 346 p. Шиковски Роберт. Объектно-обусловленное дифференцирующее маркирование в чинтанге и непальском языке (на англ. яз.) Preliminary Considerations. Chintang: S/A detransitivisation. Nepali Differencial A and O Marking. Conclusions. Annotation Guidelines Chintang. Annotation Guidelines Nepali.
Unpublished, Version 1.0, 2015. — iv, 253 p. This verb dictionary's mission is to provide complete information about all verbs, allowing them to be conjugated correctly. Each verb is thus listed by its root form, alongside the more familiar infinitive, and we also provide verb conjugation tables for each type of verb, so that any verb can be conjugated in any of its forms.
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015. — xvii, 603 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 7). — ISBN: 978-3-946234-11-1. This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on...
Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 7, 2007. — p. 1–19. — ISSN: 1544-7502 Although Kiranti languages generally show verb agreement with both arguments of a transitive verb, object agreement can also be suspended, resulting in the intransitive inflection of lexically transitive verbs. This paper analyzes suspended object agreement in Puma (Southern Kiranti). Suspended object agreement...
Berkeley: University of California, 2004. — 25 p. — (Himalayan Linguistics Archive 1)
This typological overview of Thulung Rai (Eastern Nepal) is the first description of the language to be based on new field data since Allen's 1975 Sketch of Thulung Grammar. The author collected the current data in 1999-2000 and the differences reveal the intense contact situation with Nepali...
Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 10 (1), 2011. — p. 253–271. — ISSN: 1544-7502 This paper discusses the existence of phonological and lexical isoglosses in Tilung (Rai) and other Kiranti groups on the basis of the scanty materials available, which are some 140 words and other morphemes extracted from one article written by Sueyoshi Toba (2004) and a book written by Lal Rapaca...
Berkeley: University of California, 2009. — 33 p. — (Himalayan Linguistics Archive 4). Koyi Rai is a previously undescribed language of the Kiranti group of the Himalayan branch of Tibeto-Burman. Koyi, also referred to by speakers as Koyu or Kohi, is spoken in the Khotang district in Eastern Nepal, near the headwaters of the Rawa Khola, in the villages of Sungdel and, to a...
S.l, s.a. — 653 p.
Dhimal is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 20,000 people of the same name in the lowland districts of Jhāpā and Moraṅ in southeastern Nepal at about 26° latitude and 87°-88° longitude east. In the areas in which the Dhimal are concentrated, they constitute a minority and make up less than 10% of the local population. Dhimal can be divided into two...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 318 р. — (Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/7). This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed...
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden. — Utrecht: Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap, 2009. — xvi, 497 p. — ISBN: 978-94-6093-008-9. This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal. Bantawa is an SOV language featuring rich verbal morphology. In...
Book on Demand Pod, 2011. — 40 p. — ISBN10: 5873103577; ISBN13: 978-5873103577. Khaling is a Kiranti language spoken in Solukhumbu district, Nepal and in India. It is one of the few Kiranti languages with tonal contrasts. Khaling has approximately 15,000 speakers and is therefore considered a vulnerable language. Khaling has a complex system of stem alternations: as many as 10...
2008. — 85 p. Kiranti-Bayung is a minority language spoken by a dwindling number of Bayung speakers of Wallo Kirant 'Hither/Near Kirat' from Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbhu districts of eastern Nepal. Like Kiranti-Kõits (exonym: Sunuwar/Mukhia) a sister-neighbouring language, Bayung is gradually vanishing as about 900 adults and fewer youths have the knowledge of this language. The...
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