29.4442, Books: Grammatical Sketch of the Kakhyen Language: Cushing

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Subject: 29.4442, Books: Grammatical Sketch of the Kakhyen Language: Cushing

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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:31:44
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Grammatical Sketch of the Kakhyen Language: Cushing

 


Title: Grammatical Sketch of the Kakhyen Language 
Series Title: LINCOM Gramatica 220  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LINGram-220-Grammatical-Sketch-of-the-Kakhyen-Language/en 


Author: J. N. Cushing

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889037 Pages: 33 Price: Europe EURO 36.80


Abstract:

The Kakhyen or Singpho are the most numerous people occupying the mountainous
region stretching from Upper Assam across Northern Burma beyond the Chinese
boundary into Yunan. In Burma they extend as far south as Momeit and Theinni.
During the last forty years, at different times, more or less attention has
been called to this interesting people. On the Assam side, Hannay, Robinson,
Bronson, Brown and Dalton, and on the Burman side, Anderson, Bowers, and Roman
Catholic and Protestant missionaries have published sketches of their language
and mode of life.

The language of the Kakhyen is by no means so monosyllabic as most of the
languages of Farther India. Dissyllables are numerous. These are not couplets
of two words signifying the same thing which are so common in these languages,
but proper dissyllabic words.

Doubtless the language has a remote affinity to the Burman. In grammatical
construction the Kakhyen and Burman are precisely the same, and this
constitutes their principal resemblance. There are only a few words, however,
which show the slightest resemblance to the Burman. The Burman has only three
tones or intonations, while the Kakhyen has six. In this the Kakhyen resembles
the Karén far more than the Burman, for the Karén has six tones. (Re-edition.
Originally published 1880 in London).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Singpho (sgp)


Written In: English  (eng)

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