Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi

Kanashi is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the West Himalayish subbranch of this language family. It is spoken by fewer than 2,000 individuals in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, India). The book presents an overview of synchronic and diachronic aspects of K...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]
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Summary:Kanashi is a Sino-Tibetan language belonging to the West Himalayish subbranch of this language family. It is spoken by fewer than 2,000 individuals in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, India). The book presents an overview of synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi: its sound system, its grammar in outline, its intriguing numeral systems, and word lists (English-Kanashi, Kanashi-English).
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:9783110703153
9783110703245
9783110703276
Access:Open Access