Endangered Language Research and the Moral Depravity of Ethics Protocols

National Foreign Language Resource Cente

Zhangzhung and its next of kin in the Himalayas

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An overview of Old Tibetan synchronic phonology

Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto-Burman language family, little research has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the Old Tibetan phonemic system by associating sound values with the letters of the Tibetan alphabet and exploring the distribution of these sounds in syllable structure

Book Review: Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV: Nathan W. Hill (ed.): Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library. Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.) x, 480 pp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. €163. ISBN 978 90 04 23202 0

It is a veritable rarity to find a volume containing no fewer than six state-of-the-art contributions by seven different scholars on Tangut, an extinct language written in its own ideogrammatic script and belonging to the Trans-Himalayan linguistic phylum, a.k.a. the Tibeto-Burman language family. These six dazzling new papers on Tangut are just one of the extraordinary features of this remarkable anthology, which also contains seven studies on the Tibeto-Burman languages Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Tibetan, Nam and Yi as well as one study on the historical development of the Austroasiatic language Mon, which is presumed to have exerted major contact influence on both Burmese and Pyu. Not only do the contributions contain much original text corpus in indigenous scripts, such as the beautifully rendered Tangut and Lepcha scripts, but the editor has seen to it that all Chinese forms rendered in Hànyǔ Pīnyīn are rendered correctly and consistently, i.e. complete with tone diacritics

‘Cats give funerals to rats’: making the dead modern with lament

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106846/1/jrai12100.pd