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oapen-20.500.12657-484402023-01-31T18:35:30Z A grammar of Japhug Jacques, Guillaume Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future. 2021-04-28T03:30:32Z 2021-04-28T03:30:32Z 2021 book 9783961103058 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48440 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.4548232 https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.4548232 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 9783961103058 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press open access
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Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.
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