announcement: original publication (Byangsi)

[Jan E.M. Houben]

As the following publication did not appear in a well-known indological series it may have escaped the attention of potential interessees of this list:
 
Author: Suhnu Ram Sharma
Title: Byangsi Grammar and Vocabulary.  
Pune: Deccan College Postgraduate Research Institute, 2007, 151 p.,  

[linguistic description based on fieldwork]
 
"Byangsi ... is one of seven Tibeto-Burman languages that are reported by Grierson (1909) as being spoken in the Himalayas and sub-Himalayas between the Gangetic Plain and the Tibetan Plateau, in the areas traditionally known as Kumaa~u and Ga.rhwaal [now part of] Uttaraanchal ... west of Nepaal and to the east of the state of Himaachal Pradesh."
 
 
 
 
 
Jan Houben