35.3064, Books: Dumi Analyzed Texts: Story collection in Dumi (with Grammar Sketch): Mani Rai (2024)

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Subject: 35.3064, Books: Dumi Analyzed Texts: Story collection in Dumi (with Grammar Sketch): Mani Rai (2024)

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Date: 29-Oct-2024
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Dumi Analyzed Texts: Story collection in Dumi (with Grammar Sketch): Mani Rai (2024)

Title: Dumi Analyzed Texts: Story collection in Dumi (with Grammar
Sketch)
Series Title: Languages of the World 67
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: LINCOM
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Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392157%22

Author: Netra Mani Rai
Hardback: ISBN: 9783969392157 Pages: 296 Price: Europe EURO 148
Abstract:

This volume is a compilation of a brief introduction to the Dumi
people, a grammatical sketch and analyzed texts in Dumi. Among 29
Kirati languages, Dumi (iso 639-3 dus; Glottolog dumi1241) is
endangered and is a minority Kirati language of the Rai group, which
belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language branch of the Sino-Tibetan
language family with a total population 8,638 (female: 4,373 and male:
4,265) as reported in the national census 2021. It is spoken in their
origin (i.e., the remote hill area) of the northern Khotang District
in eastern Nepal.
Dumi is an agglutinating language, and therefore morphemes are
attached to the verb stem tense, number and person. Tense, aspect and
mood tend to appear as a complex category. Dumi is morphologically an
ergative-absolutive language which has a rich case system and is
characterized by some morphosyntactic features, inclusiveness vs.
exclusiveness in first person non-singular personal pronouns, past and
non-past tense system, such as pronominal possessive suffixes and
indefinite suffixes that are attached to nouns, and some agreement
features evidenced in verbs. Dumi encodes information such as subject
and object in ditransitive verbs.
This volume consists of three sections. The first section presents
basic information about the Dumi people and their language. In section
two, there are highlighted the grammatical features found in Dumi. In
section three, there is the collection of the interlinearized and
analyzed texts. A total of 12 selected texts of true stories have been
included in this volume hoping that this text collection will provide
rich and varied data for illustrating several features in complex
pronominalized Dumi.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dumi (dus)

Written In: English (eng)

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