30.401, Books: A Raji-English Lexicon: Dhakal

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:30:04
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Raji-English Lexicon: Dhakal

 


Title: A Raji-English Lexicon 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Dictionaries 72  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783862889242%22 


Author: Dubi Nanda Dhakal

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862889242 Pages: 146 Price: Europe EURO 118.00


Abstract:

Raji is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nepal, and also in
Uttarakhand in India. This is the first glossary of Purbia Raji spoken in the
Bardiya district of western Nepal. Although some materials are available
related to Raji spoken in India, there is a dearth of such materials in Nepal.
This glossary contains 1730 words from Purbia Raji spoken in Bardiya, Nepal.
This glossary contains basic lexical items the Raji speakers use in their
daily lives. Raji borrows nearly half of its lexical items from Indo-Aryan
languages spoken in the same geographical areas when the lexical items
included in this glossary are analyzed. The percentage of borrowing is lower
when we take a shorter and basic word list.

The glossary is organized into three main sections. The first part provides
the Raji lexical items arranged alphabetically with parts of speech, and their
English equivalents. The lexical items are presented according to different
semantic categories in the second part. The users can sort out the Raji words
through English glosses in the third part. An appendix with Swadesh 100 words
is given at the end of this glossary.

Dr. Dubi Nanda Dhakal is Associate professor at Central Department of
Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. His research interests include
language documentation, description of lesser-analyzed languages, language
contact, and areal typology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Raji (rji)


Written In: English  (eng)

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