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---------- Forwarded message ----------kalyan97 <kalyan97Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM

[ind-Arch] Munda language studiesindiaarchaeology

 

 

 

 

 

The great work of Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya on Bonda dictionary and Munda etyma has to be continued within Bharatam and Austro-asiatic linguistic area of Asia, without necessarily waiting for very high-priced, unaffordable publications like Anderson's. No Munda-speaker can ever hope to read the 783-page tome blurbed as an unprecedented work. Unprecedented, maybe; but pricy certainly.

 

namaskaram.

 

kalyan

 

The Munda Languages. Edited by Gregory D. S. Anderson. London and New York: Routledge (Routledge Language Famiy Series), 2008. Pp. xxi + 783.Contents:

1. Introduction to the Munda Languages, Gregory D.S. Anderson2. Santali, Arun Ghosh3. Mundari, Toshiki Osada4. Kera? Mundari, Masato Kobayashi and Ganesh Murmu5. Ho and the other Kherwarian Languages, Gregory D.S. Anderson,

Toshiki Osada, and K. David Harrison6. Korku, Norman H. Zide7. Sora, Gregory D.S. Anderson and K. David Harrison8. Gorum, Gregory D.S. Anderson and Felix Rau9. Kharia, John Peterson

10. Juang, Manideepa Patnaik11. Remo (Bonda), Gregory D.S. Anderson and K. David Harrison12. Gutob, Arlo Griffiths13. Gta?, Gregory D.S. Anderson14. On Nihali, Norman H. ZideThe Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. To date, they are the least well-known and least documented languages of the Indian subcontinent.

This unprecedented and original work draws together a distinguished group of international experts in the field of Munda language research and presents current assessments of a wide range of typological and comparative-historical issues, providing agendas for future research.

Representing the current state of Munda Linguistics, this volume provides detailed descriptions of almost all of the languages in the family, in addition to a brief chapter discussing the enigmatic Nihali language.

Gregory D.S. Anderson is Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. His key publications include: The Munda Verb: Typological Perspectives (2007), Auxiliary Verb Constructions (2006), and Language Contact in South Central Siberia (2005).

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