A Grammar of Sunwar: Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary.
Leiden. Brill. 2008. Stock ID #175906 "This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175906.
Colour photographic illustrations. Yellow illustrated boards, xxi + 315pp, 3 pages publisher's adverts. As new - very good copy. 25 x 16cm. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 5/7.
Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged." (Publisher's blurb).
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