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Tibeto-Burman languages

Wikipedia   |   Britannica

• Tibéto-birman by Boyd Michailovsky, in Dictionnaire des langues (2011)

• Tibeto-Burman languages and classification by David Bradley (1997)

• Languages and dialects of Tibeto-Burman languages, edited by James Matisoff (1996)

• Phonological inventories of Tibeto-Burman languages, edited by Ju Namkung (1996)

• Tibeto-Burman languages of China by David Bradley, in Encyclopedia of Chinese Languages and Linguistics (2012)

• History of the scientific study of the Tibeto-Burman languages of North-East India by Satarupa Dattamajumdar, in Indian Journal of History of Science (2017)

• Rethinking Tibeto-Burman: linguistic identities and classifications in the Himalayan periphery, by Mark Turin, in Tibetan borderlands (2006)


• Les principes de construction du nombre dans les langues tibéto-birmanes, by Martine Mazaudon, in Mémoires de la Société de linguistique (2002)

• Number building in Tibeto-Burman languages, by Martine Mazaudon, in North-East India Languages Symposium (2007)

• Colour terms in Tibeto-Burman languages, by Mark Turin & Benjamin Chung, in Rocznik Orientalistyczny (2018)

• Temporal concepts and formulations of time in Tibeto-Burman languages, in The Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology (2020)


• Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: system and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction, by James Matisoff (2003)


• Devenirs identitaires dans les confins sino-tibétains: contextes et transformations, by Stéphane Gros, in Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie (2014) NEW

Tibetic languages

• The Tibetic languages: an introduction to the family of languages derived from Old Tibetan, by Nicolas Tournadre & Hiroyuki Suzuki (2023)

• Tibetic lexicon

• Maps of the Tibetic areas

• A comparative study of the phonology and morphosyntax of Ridang, an Eastern Tibetic language, by Daai-Syut Yeung, thesis (2024)

Bisu

• Writing Bisu: a community-based approach to orthography development, by Kirk Person, in Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2001)

• Orthography creation and revision in Bisu (2008)

• Language revitalization or dying gasp? language preservation efforts among the Bisu of Northern Thailand, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2005)

• Une monographie du bisu by Patrick Beaudouin, thesis (1991)


• BibleApp: translation of the New Testament into Bisu (2015) (Thai script)

Lisu

• Dictionary of the Northern dialect of Lisu by David Bradley (1983)

• Southern Lisu dictionary (2006)

→ Lisu keyboard to type text in the Fraser script, developed by James Fraser (derived from the Latin alphabet)

• Central Lisu by Marija Tabain, David Bradley, Defen Yu, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association (2018)

• Handbook of the Lisu (Yawyin) language by James Fraser (1922)

• Proto-Lolo-Burmese velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants by Zev Handel, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (2002)

Menya

• Description de la langue menya : phonologie et syntaxe (language of Sichuan), by Yang Gao, thesis (2015)

Na (mosuo)

• Na (Mosuo)-English-Chinese dictionary by Alexis Michaud, Dashilamu Latami, Pascale-Marie Milan, Benjamin Galliot (2026) NEW

Rgyalrong

• Dictionnaire japhug-chinois-français by Guillaume Jacques (2016)

• online dictionary (+ audio)

• A grammar of Japhug (2021)

• Phonologie et morphologie du japhug (rgyalrong), thesis (2004)

• Le rgyalrong zbu : étude descriptive, typologique et comparative (language of Sichuan), by Xun Gong, thesis (2018)

• The personal agreement system of Zbu Rgyalrong, in Transactions of the Philological Society (2013)

• Le rgyalrong situ de Brag-bar et sa contribution à la typologie de l'expression des relations spatiales: l'orientation et le mouvement associé, by Shuya Zhang, thesis (2020) NEW

• Grammaire du khroskyabs de Wobzi, by Yunfan Lai, thesis (2017) NEW

Tamang

• Grammatical relations in Tamang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal, by Thomas Owen-Smith, thesis (2014)

• On tone in Tamang and neighbouring languages: synchrony and diachrony, by Martine Mazaudon, in Proceedings of the Symposium Cross-linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena (2005)

• Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman, in The Dialect Laboratory (2012)

Tangut

• Grammaire du tangoute (Tangut grammar: phonology and morphology) by Mathieu Beaudouin, thesis (2023)

• Tangut and Horpa languages: some shared morphosyntactic features, in Language & Linguistics (2021)

• Non-past and past verb stems in Tangut, in Language & Linguistics (2024)

Thangmi

• A geolinguistic analysis of historical writings on the Thangmi people and language of Nepal by Mark Turin, in Geolinguistics (2003)

• Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective, in Himalayan languages, past and present (2004)

• Ethnonyms and other-nyms: linguistic anthropology among the Thangmi of Nepal, in Territory and identity in Tibet and the Himalayas (2002)

• Ethnobotanical notes on Thangmi plant names and their medicinal and ritual uses, in Contributions to Nepalese Studies (2003)

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