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4 - Trans-Himalayan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2019

Nathan W. Hill
Nathan W. Hill
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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§205. The preceding chapters trace the attested forms of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese backwards in time to the greatest extent that currently appears possible. This final chapter compares the results of these three exercises. If all developments in the three languages followed exceptionless phonological patterns with no interference from analogy and lost morphology a few scant remarks would suffice to point out that the backward projection of each of the three languages leads to the self-same result. The true situation is far less elegant. The Trans-Himalayan family is an ancient and ramified one; the three languages studied here offer only fragmentary glimpses of the proto-language.

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The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese , pp. 211 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Trans-Himalayan
  • Nathan W. Hill, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316550939.005
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  • Nathan W. Hill, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316550939.005
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  • Trans-Himalayan
  • Nathan W. Hill, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Book: The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316550939.005
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