Dear Kristine,<div><br></div><div>Atong and Garo (both Tibeto-Burman) have glottallized syllables that correspond to high-tone syllables in closely related languages e.g. Rabha and Tiwa, if I am not mistaken. Robbins Burling has published a multilingual comparison which talks about this a few years ago. I don't have the reference at hand unfortunately. Maybe someone else can help here.</div>
<div><br>For a Garo grammar see: Burling, Robbins. 2004. The Language of the Modhpur Mandi (Garo). Vol I: Grammar. New Delhi: Bibliophile South Asian in association with Promilla & Co., Publishers.</div><div><br></div>
<div>For Atong see: van Breugel, Seino. 2009. A grammar of Atong. PhD thesis. Melbourne: La Trobe University. Or download from <a href="http://thammasat.academia.edu/SeinovanBreugel">http://thammasat.academia.edu/SeinovanBreugel</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br>Seino</div><div>-- </div><div>Dr. Seino van Breugel<br>Lecturer in Linguistics<br>Thammasat University<br>Bangkok<br>
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