Marie-Caroline Lyda Pons, The Chepang Language: Phonology, nominal and verbal morphology – synchrony and diachrony of the varieties of the Lothar and Manahari Rivers

Chepang is a Trans-Himalayan (aka Tibeto-Burman or Sino-Tibetan) language mainly spoken in four districts of Nepal: Makawanpur, Chitwan, Dhading and Gorkha. Around 48,000 people declared themselves speakers of the language in 2011 (Nepal CBS). Chepang is an oral language, which means that the commu...

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Huvudupphovsman: Pons, Marie-Caroline Lyda
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
Språk:Anglais
Publicerad: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 2023
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Länkar:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sammanfattning:Chepang is a Trans-Himalayan (aka Tibeto-Burman or Sino-Tibetan) language mainly spoken in four districts of Nepal: Makawanpur, Chitwan, Dhading and Gorkha. Around 48,000 people declared themselves speakers of the language in 2011 (Nepal CBS). Chepang is an oral language, which means that the community has not yet developed a written tradition.This dissertation offers in-depth and comprehensive descriptions of many aspects of the language structures and valuable insight into their variations...