International audiencePhonological reconstruction of the Kiranti or East Himalayish subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. Voiced and unvoiced series are reconstructed, with divergent evolutions depending on the place of articulation. The Eastern group shows a Germanic devoicing, with the voicing oppostion transphonologised into aspiration. Development of a partial glottal series (ɓ, ɗ) is proposed to explain the voicing "flip-flop" observed between western and southern subgroups in the dental and bilabial orders.Reconstruction phonologique du sous-groupe kiranti de la famille tibéto-birman. Deux séries d'occlusives initiales, *sourde et *sonore, sont reconstruites, fondées sur des correspondances dans 10 langues. Les langues du sous-groupe oriental pr...
Lhokpu is a Trans-Himalayan language spoken by a dwindling number of speakers in south-western Bhut...
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voic...
International audienceIn Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reco...
Stem alternation is present in the verbal inflection of all documented Kiranti languages, where it r...
Several Kiranti languages (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) from different genealogical sub-groups show multipl...
Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well know...
International audienceThulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Eastern Nepal, has comple...
International audiencePhonological typology is a leading field in empirical linguistics today. It ow...
This paper shows that patterns of application for several phonological processes and constraints in ...
This paper discusses the existence of phonological and lexical isoglosses in Tilung (Rai) and other ...
This paper challenges the conventional views on the phylogeny of the bundle of languages of Eastern...
[Extract] In both the Austroasiatic (AA) and Tibeto-Burman (TB) language families, we find a rough o...
Conrady, Li and others have noticed the Tibetan sound changes *ḫz > ḫdz and *ḫź > ḫǰ, but there is a...
This dissertation describes the sound system of the Sikles variety of Gurung, or Tamu Kyui, a Tibeto...
This paper proposes that the labial causative prefixes found in various Trans-Himalayan languages of...
Lhokpu is a Trans-Himalayan language spoken by a dwindling number of speakers in south-western Bhut...
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voic...
International audienceIn Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reco...
Stem alternation is present in the verbal inflection of all documented Kiranti languages, where it r...
Several Kiranti languages (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) from different genealogical sub-groups show multipl...
Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well know...
International audienceThulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Eastern Nepal, has comple...
International audiencePhonological typology is a leading field in empirical linguistics today. It ow...
This paper shows that patterns of application for several phonological processes and constraints in ...
This paper discusses the existence of phonological and lexical isoglosses in Tilung (Rai) and other ...
This paper challenges the conventional views on the phylogeny of the bundle of languages of Eastern...
[Extract] In both the Austroasiatic (AA) and Tibeto-Burman (TB) language families, we find a rough o...
Conrady, Li and others have noticed the Tibetan sound changes *ḫz > ḫdz and *ḫź > ḫǰ, but there is a...
This dissertation describes the sound system of the Sikles variety of Gurung, or Tamu Kyui, a Tibeto...
This paper proposes that the labial causative prefixes found in various Trans-Himalayan languages of...
Lhokpu is a Trans-Himalayan language spoken by a dwindling number of speakers in south-western Bhut...
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voic...
International audienceIn Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reco...