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Recent language contact in the Nepal Himalaya
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Pacific Linguistics, 2015.
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Abstract
- The author examines the conducts and relations between the different language families in Nepalese Himalaya region. The Nepal Himalayas have been the scene of extensive linguistic contact over a considerable period. Languages of different genetic phyla, in particular Indo-European and Tibeto-Burman, have been involved, but so have languages within the Tibeto-Burman phylum representing different stocks with differing typological characteristics. Indeed, the long periods of contact between speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages of different stocks have resulted in considerable lexical and grammatical borrowing, which has tended to obscure genetic relationships. As a result, there is still a good deal of uncertainty as to how even major groupings of languages should be positioned within the family tree.
- Subjects :
- Nepal [L15]
Other languages
Linguistics [T15]
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6742221b3209dd45141bd4291dd88f30
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.15144/pl-555.65