Dictionary of the Apatani Language
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Apatani phonology and lexicon, with a special focus on tone
2013. Himalayan Linguistics 12.1: 17-75.
Despite being one of the most extensively researched of Eastern Himalayan languages, the basic morphological and phonological-prosodic properties of Apatani (Tibeto-Burman > Tani > Western) have not yet been adequately described. This article attempts such a description, focusing especially on interactions between segmental-syllabic phonology and tone in Apatani. We highlight three features in particular – vowel length, nasality and a glottal stop – which contribute to contrastively-weighted syllables in Apatani, which are consistently under-represented in previous descriptions of Apatani, and in absence of which tone in Apatani cannot be effectively analysed. We conclude that Apatani has two “underlying”, lexically-specified tone categories H and L, whose interaction with word structure and syllable weight produce a maximum of three “surface” pitch contours – level, falling and rising – on disyllabic phonological words. Two appendices provide a set of diagnostic procedures for the discovery and description of Apatani tone categories, as well as an Apatani lexicon of approximately one thousand entries.
Galo-English Dictionary, with English-Galo Index [International Edition]
Rwbaa, Igoo, M. Post, Ilww Rwbaa, M. Xodu, K. Bagra, B. Rwbaa, T. Rwbaa, N. Aado and D. Keenaa 2009. Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, Galo Welfare Society.
1 Indian Lexicon: An introduction Discovering the language of India circa 3000 B.C. This is a comparative study of lexemes of all the languages of India (which may also be referred to, in a geographical/historical phrase, as the Indian linguistic area). This lexicon seeks to establish a semantic concordance, across the languages or numraire facile of the Indian linguistic area: from Brahui to Santali to Bengali, from Kashmiri to Mundarica to Sinhalese, from Marathi to Hindi to Nepali, from Sindhi or Punjabi or Urdu to Tamil. A semantic structure binds the languages of India, which may have diverged morphologically or phonologically as evidenced in the oral tradition of Vedic texts, or epigraphy, literary works or lexicons of the historical periods. This lexicon, therefore, goes beyond, the commonly held belief of an Indo-European language and is anchored on proto-Indian sememes. The work covers over 8,000 semantic clusters which span and bind the Indian languages. The basic finding is that thousands of terms of the Vedas, the Munda languages (e.g., Santali, Mundarica, Sora), the so-called Dravidian languages and the so-called Indo-Aryan languages have common roots. This belies the received wisdom of cleavage between, for example, the Dravidian or Munda and the Aryan languages. The lexicon seeks to establish an areal 'Indian' language type, by establishing semantic concordance among the so-called Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda languages. The area spanned is a geographical region bounded by the Indian ocean on the south and the mountain ranges which insulate it from other regions of the Asian continent on the north, east and west. This lexicon is a tribute to the brilliant work done by etymologists and scholars of Indian linguistics, and to a number of scholars who have contributed to unravelling the enigma of the Indus (Sarasvati-Sindhu) Script and to the study of ancient Indian science and technology.
Solega-English Dictionary and Sketch Grammar
2020
Draft of the Solega-English Dictionary (with sketch grammar), containing much encyclopaedic information on the traditional ecological knowledge of the Solega people of the B. R. Hills (Karnataka State, southern India). The dictionary also includes an English-Solega finder list and biological species list.
Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu
Araki, an unwritten Austronesian language belonging to the Oceanic subgroup, is now spoken by less than a dozen people in a small islet of Vanuatu; it is likely to disappear very soon. As the first ever publication about this language, the present study covers all that it has been possible to gather from it. The core of this book is a grammatical description of Araki: attention has been paid to its phonology and morphology, the inventory of syntactic categories, the internal organisation of noun and verb phrases, the semantics of aspect and mood, complex sentence construction, and many other topics which illustrate the originality of this language. A bilingual lexicon is also provided, as well as a selection of texts.
Draft Kriol Emotion Glossary (Barunga region)
2019
Kriol Emotion Glossary (Barunga region) First draft, September 2019 Compiled by Maïa Ponsonnet, in collaboration with Angela Ashley, Ingrid Ashley, Bonita Bennett, Jurraine Bennet, †Lily Bennett, Queenie Brennan, Alexandra Bush-Martin, Maggie Jentian, June Jolly, Tyrona Manyita, and June Jolly-Ashley. This is a glossary of emotion words, i.e. words for ‘feelings’ such as einggri/angry, sed/sad, fil sori/feel sorry etc. There are many more Kriol words about feelings than those included here, but this is a start. Also, we have only included words and meanings as used in the Barunga region. There may be different Kriol words, and different meanings, in other regions.