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Free and #OpenAccess:
Nicolas Tournadre and Hiroyuki Suzuki. 2023. The Tibetic Languages: an introduction to the family of languages derived from Old Tibetan.
From the description:
"This #book is an introduction to the family of #languages derived from Old #Tibetan. These languages are spoken on the Tibetan plateau, in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The Tibetic-speaking area is nowadays located in six countries: #China, #Pakistan, #India, #Nepal, #Bhutan, and #Myanmar. Some of the smallest languages are seriously endangered, and likely to disappear soon."
From the table of contents, it covers so much across the 1100+ pages; #sociolinguistics, #culture, #history, #religion, #script and #calligraphy, ##epigraphy, alongside everything #linguistics, #etymology, #grammar, #lexicon and effects of contact languages. #language #EndangeredLanguages #Tibet
https://lacito.cnrs.fr/en/tibetic-languages/