The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts

POST, MARK W.

Editore: Brill., Leiden., 2017

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Coloured maps and a few colour photographic illustrations, xix + 301pp, bibliography. Unread and as new . A very good copy. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 19. 24 x 16cm. "Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken by around 150 hilltribespeople in the far Eastern Himalaya. A member of the Tani subgroup of Trans-Himalayan, Tangam is mutually-unintelligible with other languages of this otherwise relatively homogeneous subgroup. This is demonstrated to be a consequence of Tangam's early-branching status within the Western Tani subgroup, subsequent contact with Eastern Tani languages, and historical relationship with speakers of Bodic languages. Based on three field trips to the Tangam-speaking area over two years, this work presents a brief but comprehensive cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tangam language, together with a trilingual lexicon in Tangam, English and Minyong, and a collection of fully-analysed texts. (Publisher's blurb).

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• Titolo: The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts
• Editore: Brill., Leiden.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Himalayas