The Kurux Language
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Author | : Masato Kobayashi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2017-09-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004347666 |
The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian traits and innovations induced by contact with neighboring Indo-Aryan and Munda languages, and has posed questions regarding language change and Dravidian subgrouping. Making use of first-hand materials from their fieldwork, Kobayashi and Tirkey analyze the complexities of the language in the grammar section. This book also contains transcribed and glossed texts, and a lexicon with more than 9,000 entries, and serves both as reference for linguists and learning resource for students.
Author | : Martin Pfeiffer (Writer on Kurukh language) |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004643931 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004439153 |
This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.
Author | : Sanford B. Steever |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317525396 |
The Dravidian language family is the world's fourth largest with nearly 250 million speakers across South Asia from Pakistan to Nepal, from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. This authoritative reference source provides a unique description of the languages, covering their grammatical structure and historical development, plus sociolinguistic features. Each chapter combines a modern linguistic perspective with traditional historical linguistics, and a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. New to this edition are chapters on Beṭṭa Kuṟumba, Kuṛux, Kūvi and Malayāḷam, and enlarged sections in various existing chapters, as well as updated bibliographies and demographic data throughout. The Dravidian Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of comparative literature, areal linguistics and South Asian studies.
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1172 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
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Total Pages | : 1512 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy |
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Total Pages | : 1360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1236 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
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Author | : Bhadriraju Krishnamurti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2003-01-16 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1139435337 |
The Dravidian languages are spoken by over 200 million people in South Asia and in Diaspora communities around the world, and constitute the world's fifth largest language family. It consists of about 26 languages in total including Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu, as well as over 20 non-literary languages. In this book, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, one of the most eminent Dravidianists of our time, provides a comprehensive study of the phonological and grammatical structure of the whole Dravidian family from different aspects. He describes its history and writing systems, discusses its structure and typology, and considers its lexicon. Distant and more recent contacts between Dravidian and other language groups are also discussed. With its comprehensive coverage this book will be welcomed by all students of Dravidian languages and will be of interest to linguists in various branches of the discipline as well as Indologists.
Author | : Andreas Hölzl |
Publisher | : Language Science Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2022-10-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 396110395X |
Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenisey River and Xinjiang in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin in the east. They extend as far north as the Taimyr Peninsula and, for a brief period, could even be found in parts of Central and Southern China. This book is an attempt to bring researchers from different backgrounds together to provide an open-access publication in English that is freely available to all scholars in the field. The contributions cover all branches of Tungusic and a wide range of linguistic features. Topics include synchronic descriptions, typological comparisons, dialectology, language contact, and diachronic reconstruction. Some of the contributions are based on first-hand data collected during fieldwork, in some cases from the last speakers of a given language.