The University of Manchester, 2007. — 34 p. I begin this account with an apparent problem in Limbu phonology, discussed at some length by various contributors. In his 1987 grammar and again in a 1990 paper, George van Driem examines, from an areal and diachronic perspective, the allophonic variants of the lateral approximant /l/ in the Phedappe dialect of Limbu and in some...
2004. - 30 p.
All the minority languages of Nepal are at risk. Limbu is better situated than most other minority languages, but the process of language shift to Nepali has already made substantial inroads among the Limbu people. Nepali is the lingua franca, and enjoyed many years of being the only official language of Nepal. Until the 1990 revolution, minority languages were...
Person and evidence in Himalayan languages. Special Issue of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Balthasar Bickel (ed.), Volume II: 24.1, 2001. - 10 p.
In a number of Eastern Kiranti languages, verb forms for 1st person patient scenarios have been replaced, in some cases optionally, by a construction in which a word for man represents the 1st person patient, and the verb...
Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2007. — 375 p.
The study aims to prepare a descriptive grammar of Chhathare Limbuin term of : phonology, morphophonology, morphology and syntax. It leaves semantics and discourse analysis for future inquiry. Chhatthare Limbu has dialectal variations but this work deals only with the dialect spoken in Banchare of Tangkhuwa village development committee....
Mouton de Gruyter, 1987. — 604 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 4). — ISBN: 0899253458. Limbu is a member of the Eastern Kiranti branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language is spoken predominantly in eastern Nepal but also in portions of neighbouring Sikkim and Darjeeling by about 180,000 people. This grammar of the conservative Phedappe dialect of Limbu...
Amsterdam: Lobster Publications, 1985. — 409 p. This book contains a concise Limbu grammar with nominal and verbal paradigms, a concise Limbu-English dictionary, and an English-Limbu vocabulary.
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