Atlantic Books, 2025. — 352 p. An enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world. From the whistling languages of La Gomera in the Canary Islands and the Hmong people in East and Southeast Asia, to the wars and clashes in Sri Lanka and the conservation efforts in Hawaii and New Zealand, Rare Tongues draws attention to how language and culture are becoming...
Uppsala Universitet, 2011. — 157 p. — (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 16). Laraki, a Southwestern Iranian language variety heavily influenced by Arabic, is spoken on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. This study is a survey of language use by the Larakispeaking community and is based on a field trip conducted in January 2009. In our research, we provide an overview of the...
Ahmedabad, 1895. — 332 p. It is not with a view to conserve in any way the Bhilí tongue, which is after all only a corrupt form of one of the principal languages of India, that I have compiled this Grammar and Vocabulary. My object will be fulfilled should this Book prove of service to those whose work may lie among the Bhils.
M.A.Thesis. — Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. — 206 p. This study is the very first detailed description of the (finite) verb morphology in Azamgarhi, a unique Awadhic Indo-Aryan language spoken exclusively by a significant number of Muslims of the Azamgarh region of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a part of a broader goal of holistic and comprehensive documentation of the...
Editor / Translator: Paul Sidwell. — Brill, 2021. — xxii, 438 p. — (Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages; Mainland and Insular South East Asia 16). Not only is May otherwise undescribed in writing, it is the only small Vietic language documented and analysed in such detail, and one of few endangered Austroasiatic languages described so thoroughly. May is predominantly...
Brill, 2020. — xvi, 514 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 24). A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal...
Brill, 2022. — xii, 379 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 52). The Eastern Himalaya holds perhaps the highest levels of ethnolinguistic diversity in all Eurasia, with over 300 languages spoken by as many distinct cultural groups. What factors can explain such diversity? How did it evolve, and what can its analysis teach us about the prehistory of its wider region? This...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1988. — 104 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). Очерк содержит первое в отечественной лингвистике системное описание одного из языков тайской группы — языка сэк. Этот бесписьменный исчезающий язык сохраняет множество архаических черт в фонологии, грамматике и лексике. Он имеет большое значение для сравнительного изучения тайских...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1988. — 104 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). Очерк содержит первое в отечественной лингвистике системное описание одного из языков тайской группы — языка сэк. Этот бесписьменный исчезающий язык сохраняет множество архаических черт в фонологии, грамматике и лексике. Он имеет большое значение для сравнительного изучения тайских...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — 536 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 64). The catalogue concerns it self with the Austronesian and other languages of the Pacific Basin and South-East Asia as well as some of the related languages of the Indian Sub-Continent and Madagascar. A number of the theses and dissertations listed in this...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 286 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 84). Almost all of the people who can be identified as Chepang by language and culture live in a roughly rectangular area of south-central Nepal, bounded to the north by the Trisuli River, in the west by the Narayani River, to the south by the Rapti River and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2000. — 314 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications 29). This volume focuses on problems in the morphological and syntactic analysis of certain Asian and Pacific languages, bringing to bear alternative theories of grammar, including relational, categorial, and lexicase dependency grammar, and a whole-word approach to morphology. Among the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 72 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 57). This present work is an attempt to provide useful basic information to field researchers so that they can better conceptualise their project and envisage the conditions in which they will be working.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 216 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 80). In 1971, a small index to Pacific Linguistics publications up to the end of 1970 was issued; it was followed ten years later by an index which included all works published within the twenty-year period 1961 to 1981 . The 1981 index was far more...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — 510 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 133). Comparative-Historical Studies Robert Blust - The linguistic position of the Western Islands, Papua New Guinea Ann Chowning - POc *mata: how many words, how many meanings? Tom Dutton - Lau'una: another Austronesian remnant on the south-east...
The Australian National University, 1967. — 107 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 9). Phonemik syllable repertory in Vietnamese - Nguyen Dan Liem Tones and intonation in south Vietnamese - A. Tran Huong Mai Notes on Akha segmental phonemes and tones - David W. Dellinger
Lund University, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, 2002. — 288 p. This book is a linguistic study of Jahai, a language belonging to the Northern Aslian subgroup of the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family. The language is spoken by groups of foragers in the mountain rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia and southernmost Thailand, its total number of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1971. — 82 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 29). Register in Tibeto-Burman Languages of Nepal: a Comparison with Mon-Khmer - Warren W. Glover A Guide to Thakali Tone - Maria Hari Problems of Phone Assignment in the Description of Thailand Lisu Phonology - E. R. Hope
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. — 136 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 53). Some Lamani Sentence Types: an Experiment in Pedagogical Research - Ronald L. Trail A Palatography Experiment to Show the Contrast Between Dental and Post-Alveolar Stops in Punjabi - Peter J. Grainger Gurung Dialects - Warren W. Glover and John K. Landon...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 168 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 62/Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 8). This volume contains six studies by researchers in Australia on the suprasegmental systems of various mainland Asian languages - one on a non-Mandarin variety of Chinese; one on Vietnamese dialects; two on dialects...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. — 138 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 90). Edmund A. Anderson - The use of speech levels in Sundanese Ferdinand De Haan - Khmer and the theory of modality Judy Ho - Socio-semantic aspects of human measure words in Cantonese Kitima Indrambarya - The status of the word hay in Thai Charles...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1989. — 234 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 77/Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 11). Southern Thai deixis - Anthony Diller Directional modification in Thai fiction: the use of 'come' and 'go' in text building - Robert J. Bickner Directional auxiliaries in Daai Chin - Helga Hartmann-So The grammar...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. — 156 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 52/Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 6). The So-Called Passive in Thai - Pongsri Lekawatana Initial Consonant Cluster Reduction As a Function of Age Group in Bangkok Thai Speakers - Leslie M. Beebe Two Types of Semantic Contrast Between Thai and Lao -...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1978. — 118 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 49). The T'in: An Ethnolinguistic Introduction Linguistic Classification Proto-Mal Proto-Pray Proto-T'in