Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: This book on the pre-modern Tibeto-Burman languages represents a movement to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. The book contains papers by T. Takeuchi on Old Zhang-zhung, A. Zadoks on Old Tibetan, K. Tamot on Early Classical Newari; C. Beckwith on Pyu, R. Yanson on Old Burmese, S. Chelliah and S. Ray on Early Meithei, D. Bradley on Tibeto-Burman, and C. Beckwith on Sino-Tibetan. Glossaries of several early Tibeto-Burman languages are included. It provides information, not found in any other source, on early Tibeto-Burman literary languages and their position within Tibeto-Burman as well as their relationship to Chinese and other languages. (from the Publisher's website)

Table of Contents: Preface / Christopher I. Beckwith - - Abbreviations - - Introduction / Christopher I. Beckwith - - The Old Zhangzhung Manuscript Stein Or 8212/ 188 / Tsuguhito Takeuchi - - Some Characteristics of the Tibeto-Burman Stock of Early Classical Newari / Kashinath Tamot - - Two Pyu-Tibetan Isoglosses / Christopher I. Beckwith - - On Pali-Burmese Interference / Rudolf A. Yanson - - Early Meithei Manuscripts / Shobhana Chelliah and Sohini Ray - - The Subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman / David Bradley - - The Sino-Tibetan Problem / Christopher I. Beckwith - - A Glossary of Pyu / Christopher I. Beckwith - - A List of Old Burmese Words from 12th Century Inscriptions / Rudolf A. Yanson - - A Glossary of Early Classical Tibeto-Burman Newari / Kashinath Tamot - - A Preliminary Glossary of Tangut from Tibetan Transcriptions / Ksenia B. Kepping and Christopher I. Beckwith - - A Glossary of 39 Basic Words in Archaic and Modern Meithei / Shobhana Chelliah and Sohini Ray.