The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts
Leiden. Brill. 2017. Stock ID #175930 "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. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175930.
Coloured maps and a few colour photographic illustrations, xix + 301pp, bibliography. Unread and as new . A very good copy. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 19. 24 x 16cm.
Based 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. (Publisher's blurb).
Price: $125.00 AU