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Chhatthare Limbu is spoken in parts of Dhankuta and Terhathum districts of eastern Nepal by approximately 30,000 populations. It is a complex pronominalized, Sino-Tibetan, Tibetan, eastern Himalayish, eastern Kiranti language. It has 20 consonants /p/, /t/, /k/, /c/, /?/, /b/, /g/, /ph/, /th/, /kh/, /ch/, /s/, /?/, /m/, /n/, /?/, /l/, /r/, /w/ and /y/. It has 7 vowels: /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /?/, /?/ and /a/. The canonical shape of the syllable contains (a) vowel (b) vowel and consonant (c) consonant and vowel (d) consonant, vowel and consonant (e) consonant, consonant and vowel and (f) consonant, consonant, vowel and consonant. A word may contain up to five syllables. 0Morphophonological changes are attributed to deletion, epenthesis, assimilation and vowel harmony. Nouns inflect for singular, dual and plural and have twelve cases. Pronouns inflect for exclusivity in nonsingular forms. Verbs are of three types: intransitive, reflexive and transitive. It is an agglutinative, suffix prominent, verb final language. A verb may have seven affixes, two prefixes and five suffixes. Generally the word order is subject, object and verb (SVO). A noun phrase can be formed of determiner, numeral, adverb, adjective and head. It has simple, compound and complex sentence forms.

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LINCOM GmbH
Language
English
Pages
210

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and Limbu (Tibeto-Himalayan).

Published in
Muenchen
Series
Languages of the world. Materials -- 507, Languages of the world -- 507.

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Dewey Decimal Class
410
Library of Congress
PL3801.L5 T953 2017, PL3801.L571 T86 2017

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Pagination
xxiv, 210 pages
Number of pages
210

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44575925M
ISBN 10
3862887588
ISBN 13
9783862887583
OCLC/WorldCat
973876720

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