Most Recently Recorded Data on Kusunda Language

[Randy LaPolla]

Dear B. K. Rana,
Thank you very much for making the Kusunda language available. I want 
to clarify one thing, though, as it may lead to confusion among the 
readers of the EL list:

> 1) ipan  (maize), sisin, (paddy), kharubau (wheat) etc. in Kusunda 
> cannot be found in other TB languages .

The implication here seems to be that Kusunda is a Tibeto-Burman 
language. While I understand there are a number of opinions about the 
genetic affiliation of Kusunda, it is very clearly not a Tibeto-Burman 
language.

All the best,
Randy

Randy J. LaPolla, PhD
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Dept of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics
City University of Hong Kong
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