Languages of the Himalayas : : Volume 2.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia ; 10/2
• Author: van Driem, George.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia ; 10/2.; Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2-8: Asian Studies Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (924 pages)

This handbook is a survey of Himalayan languages and language communities, providing hitherto unpublished data on several languages and outlining ethnolinguistically relevant historical and prehistorical developments. Grammatical features of Himalayan languages are discussed, and detailed language distribution maps are included. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER FOUR THE BRAHMAPUTRA AND BEYOND -- A CURIOUS GEM -- THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SUN CHARIOT -- The Kho-Bwa cluster -- Hrusish -- Tani -- The Mishmi clusters -- CHILDREN OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA -- Kachári-Koch or Bodo-Koch -- The Chutiya -- Greater Bodo -- The Garos of the Garo Hills -- The Koch subgroup and the Rajbangsis -- At the bend of the Brahmaputra -- Toto and Dhimal -- Northern Naga and Kachinic -- THE INDO-BURMESE BORDERLANDS -- The Ao Cluster -- The Angami-Pochuri Cluster -- The Zeme, Tangkhul and Meithei Clusters -- Karbí or Mikir -- Mizo-Kuki-Chin and Mru -- CHAPTER FIVE A WAVE WASHES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FLANK -- MAHAKIRANTI AND NEPAL -- Subjugation and acculturation of the Kirantis -- Divisions amongst the Kiranti -- Grammatical issues in Himalayan languages -- GREATER EASTERN KIRANTI -- The Limbu of Limbuvān -- Yakkha, Chiling and the Athpahariya dialects -- Kiranti of the Upper Arun -- CENTRAL AND WESTERN KIRANTI -- The Kiranti of Khambuvān -- The Kiranti of the southern hilIs -- Kiranti of the Upper Dūdhkosī -- Northwest Kiranti -- NEWARIC OR PARA-KIRANTI LANGUAGES -- The Licchavīs and the Newars -- The Malla period and early European visitors -- The language of the Newars -- The Barām and the Thangmi -- FLOTSAM AND JETSAM ALONG THE SOUTHERN SLOPES -- Magar and Kham -- Chepang and Bhujeli -- Men of the jungle -- The Lhokpu of southwestern Bhutan -- Accessories to accession -- Lepcha -- CHAPTER SIX A WAVE LAPS AGAINST THE NORTHERN FLANK -- BODISH LANGUAGES -- Tibet and the Tibetan languages -- Documentation of the Tibetan language -- Inhabitants of hidden lands -- Bhutan, the duars and the British -- Dzongkha and her three sisters -- East Bodish languages -- THE WEST HIMALAYISH LANGUAGES -- West Himalayish south of the great Himalayan divide.

Zhangzhung, the sacred language of Bon -- TAMANGIC AND PARA-BODISH -- Gurung, Tamang and Thakali -- Scattered Tamangic languages -- Tshangla -- CHAPTER SEVEN ZAGROSIANS AND INDO-EUROPEANS -- THE ELAMITES AND THE DRAVIDIAN INDUS -- The Elamites and the Indus script -- Antecedents of the Elamite and Indus civilisations -- Post-glacial environments -- The Aryans come to the Indus Valley -- Flight of the Dravidians -- Brahui and the Dravidian Indus -- THE COMING OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS -- 'van een ende de selve afcomste' -- The homeland and branches of Indo-European -- The linguistic Piltdown Man or just wishful thinking? -- The Indo-Aryan invasion of the Subcontinent -- INDO-EUROPEANS OF THE HIMALAYAS -- The Iranians come to Persia -- Infidels in the Land af Enlightenment -- Aryan society and language -- The rise of Nepal and Nepali -- The Rāṇā period and the Restoration -- Khaś Kurā or Nepali -- The great eastward exodus -- Indo-Aryans of the foothills and plains -- CHAPTER EIGHT BURUSHASKI AND BEYOND -- THE BURÚSHO AND BURUSHASKI -- STRAY SIBERIANS IN THE HIMALAYAS -- Remote relations of the Yenisseian languages -- Greater Yenisseian and Burushaski -- Burúsho and Yenisseians in the archaeological record -- THE HUNS AND THE HIMALAYAS -- Distant relatives and their neighbours -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.