The Tangam language

• Verfasst von: Post, Mark W. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The Tangam language
• Titelzusatz: grammar, lexicon and texts
• Verf.angabe: by Mark W. Post ; with contributing assistance from Dugbang Lipir and Yankee Modi
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: xix, 301 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Format: cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; 5,19 : Languages of the greater Himalayan region ; 19
• ISBN: 90-04-34432-2
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34432-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Adi / (s)Grammatik
• Dokumenttyp: Einführung
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1556164157

Abstract

Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken by around 150 hilltribespeople in the far Eastern Himalaya. A member of the Tani subgroup of Trans-Himalayan, Tangam is mutually-unintelligible with other languages of this otherwise relatively homogeneous subgroup. This is demonstrated to be a consequence of Tangam's early-branching status within the Western Tani subgroup, subsequent contact with Eastern Tani languages, and historical relationship with speakers of Bodic languages.0Based on three field trips to the Tangam-speaking area over two years, this work presents a brief but comprehensive cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tangam language, together with a trilingual lexicon in Tangam, English and Minyong, and a collection of fully-analysed texts. It will be of interest to linguists and anthropologists of the Himalayan region, as well as to historical linguists and language typologists