Discussion note: more on “Kamarupan”
"Kamarupan” is the name that Jim Matisoff bestowed on a somewhat scattered and certainly disparate group of Tibeto-Burman languages. It includes the Tibeto Burman languages that are spoken in northeast India and others from adjacent regions. I have long felt that the name is inappropriate f...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177635 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | "Kamarupan” is the name that Jim Matisoff bestowed on a somewhat scattered
and certainly disparate group of Tibeto-Burman languages. It includes the Tibeto Burman languages that are spoken in northeast India and others from adjacent
regions. I have long felt that the name is inappropriate for northeast Indian
languages and I would like all Tibeto-Burmanists to understand why the name is
so problematic. |
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