Bibliography on seldom studied South Asian languages

[Stephen Matthews]

VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
Editors:  Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
          John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Details:  Send email to listserv at listserv.syr.edu and say: INFO VYAKARAN
Subscribe:Send email to listserv at listserv.syr.edu and say:
          SUBSCRIBE VYAKARAN FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME
          (Substitute your real name for first_name last_name)
Archives: http://listserv.syr.edu

Dear all,
May I suggest an intriguing addition:

Whitehouse, Paul, Timothy Usher, Meritt Ruhlen and William S-Y Wang. 2004.
Kusunda: An Indo-Pacific language in Nepal. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the USA, vol. 101, no.15, 5692-95.

The authors claim that Kusunda was misclassified as Sino-Tibetan
essentially because their neighbours, such as the Chepang, clearly speak
S-T languages. Instead, it is proposed that Kusunda related to Andamanese
and Papuan languages within Greenberg's Indo-Pacific grouping.
I would be interested to hear the views of specialists in this area on
either of these points.

Stephen