Bibliography on seldom studied South Asian languages

[John Peterson]

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Stephen,

B.K. Rana, who is working on Kusunda, mentions this topic briefly in his
paper on Kusunda (the downloadable one on the Kusunda page).

He doesn't seem to be a member of Vyakaran, so I have forwarded your mail
to him. His address, by the way: bk_rana at yahoo.com

And many thanks for the reference - I'll add it to the page this evening!

Best,

John

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> 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
>


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