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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824599403321

Autore

Winter Werner <1923-2010.>

Titolo

A Bantawa dictionary / / by Werner Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003

ISBN

3-11-089831-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Documentation ; ; 20

Classificazione

EG 7430

Disciplina

495/.49

Soggetti

Bantawa language

Kiranti languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Bantawa-English -- English-Bantawa -- Grammatical Markers in Bantawa

Sommario/riassunto

Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important subgroup of the Kiranti group of Tibeto-Burman languages. This dictionary, based on material obtained in the context of the Linguistic Survey of Nepal, concise though it is, stands out as the most voluminous of the few dictionaries and word lists for Rai languages that were hitherto published with English equivalents of native forms provided. The fact that both a Bantawa-English and an English-Bantawa part give access to the forms makes the book an important research tool for specialists in Kiranti languages as well as for scholars concerned with Tibeto-Burman and Nepal studies in general.