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The Thangmi verbal agreement system and the Kiranti connection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Mark Turin
Affiliation:
Himalayan Languages Project, Leiden University

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Thangmi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in central-eastern Nepal and north-eastern India. The majority of Thangmi speakers live in Nepal and still inhabit their traditional homeland of Dolakhá district. There are ethnic Thangmi in many of the other districts of the kingdom, especially in the neighbouring districts of Sindhupálcok, Sindhulī and Rámecháp. The Thangmi population in India is largely concentrated in Darjeeling and is the product of an emigration earlier this century.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1998

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