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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:35:12
From: Ulrich Lüders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Chhatthare Limbu: Tumbahang
Title: A Grammar of Chhatthare Limbu
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 507
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/A-Grammar-of-Chhatthare-Limbu/en
Author: Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862887583 Pages: 244 Price: Europe EURO 78.80
Abstract:
Chhatthare Limbu is spoken in parts of Dhankuta and Terhathum districts of
eastern Nepal by approximately 30,000 populations. It is a complex
pronominalized, Sino-Tibetan, Tibetan, Eastern Himalayish, Eastern Kiranti
language. It has 20 consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /c/, /ʔ/, /b/, /g/, /ph/, /th/,
/kh/, /ch/, /s/, /ɦ/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /l/, /r/, /w/ and /y/. It has 7 vowels:
/i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /ɛ/, /ɔ/ and /a/. The canonical shape of the syllable
contains (a) vowel (b) vowel and consonant (c) consonant and vowel (d)
consonant, vowel and consonant (e) consonant, consonant and vowel and (f)
consonant, consonant, vowel and consonant. A word may contain up to five
syllables.
Morphophonological changes are attributed to deletion, epenthesis,
assimilation and vowel harmony. Nouns inflect for singular, dual and plural
and have twelve cases. Pronouns inflect for exclusivity in nonsingular forms.
Verbs are of three types: intransitive, reflexive and transitive. It is an
agglutinative, suffix prominent, verb final language. A verb may have seven
affixes, two prefixes and five suffixes. Generally the word order is subject,
object and verb (SVO). A noun phrase can be formed of determiner, numeral,
adverb, adjective and head. It has simple, compound and complex sentence
forms.
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Subject Language(s): Limbu (lif)
Written In: English (eng)
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