A Grammar of Limbu
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A Grammar of Limbu
Based on the Phedape Dialect of the Old Limbu Heartland
by George van Driem
This new grammar of Limbu details the structure of the conservative Phedap dialect of the language based on the author’s sojourns with the Panyangu family of Tamphula village in the early 1980s.
This augmented and enhanced edition expands upon the original Mouton de Gruyter edition, published in West Berlin in 1987, and includes new historical material on the Limbu people and Kiranti script as well an appendix on the verbal agreement system of Chuiluun, a closely related and largely undocumented Kiranti language.
This improved Nepali edition of the Limbu grammar by Jagadambā Prakāśan at Lalitpur was supported by a subvention from the Embassy of Switzerland to Nepal.
The cover photograph depicts the sacred Limbu mountain Phoktaŋluŋ, known in Nepali as Mount Kumbhakarna, at 7710 metres the world’s 32nd highest peak. Sacrosanct to the ancestors of the Limbu people, this mountain overlooks the northern reaches of Limbuwan. The picture was taken on 17 October 2022 by Elizabeth Andrews Byers.
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This grammar of the conservative Phedappe dialect of Limbu contains a description of the phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as tables of regular and irregular verbal conjugations, a Limbu-English dictionary and a corpus of morphologically analysed Limbu texts with English translation. These texts include oral traditions and myths as well as transcriptions of actual conversations. An account of the Limbu literary tradition is given along with an exposition of the Kiranti script, which was devised in the early 18th century
