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Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba
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Gail Coelho
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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Beṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Beṭṭa Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.
Author / Editor information
Gail Coelho, Ph.D. (2003, University of Texas at Austin), is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delhi. She has several publications in language analysis and documentation, including The Re-emergence of Finite Serial Verbs in South Dravidian (Walter de Gruyter, 2012).
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"The texts in ATBK are only a part of those that Coelho has collected over the past quarter century. Dravidian scholars will applaud her admirable achievement and look forward to the future publication of additional texts and grammatical analysis of this fascinating, understudied language. ATBK is the foundational study on which all subsequent study of BK will stand."
-Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.
-Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.
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eBook published on:
October 8, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004378247
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Main content:
652
eBook ISBN:
9789004378247
Keywords for this book
Chelliah; Peterson; BSSAL; Nilgiri; folklore; anthropology; India; Dravidian; Tamil; Kerala; Waynad; endangered languages; grammar; religion; kinship system
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the grammar of the world’s languages, particularly the Dravidian languages, and in the culture of the Nilgiri-Waynad region, including, its folklore, social organization, and religious practices.
