Carol Genetti, Ph.D.

New York University Abu Dhabi

Dolakha Newar


Book chapter


Carol Genetti
Graham Thurgood, Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition, Routledge, New York, 2017, pp. 436-452.

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Genetti, C. (2017). Dolakha Newar. In G. Thurgood & R. J. L. P. (eds.) (Eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (pp. 436–452.). New York: Routledge.


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Genetti, Carol. “Dolakha Newar.” In The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), 436–452. New York: Routledge, 2017.


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Genetti, Carol. “Dolakha Newar.” The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. LaPolla (eds.), Routledge, 2017, pp. 436–52.


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@inbook{carol2017a,
  title = {Dolakha Newar},
  year = {2017},
  address = {New York},
  pages = {436-452.},
  publisher = {Routledge},
  author = {Genetti, Carol},
  editor = {Thurgood, Graham and (eds.), Randy J. LaPolla},
  booktitle = {The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition}
}

ABSTRACT

 Dolakha Newar is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the village of Dolakha, which is approximately 145 kilometres to the east of Kathmandu, Nepal. The language is Newar, but  mutually unintelligible with the Kathmandu variety so could be considered an independent language. The goal of the current chapter is to provide information on the  central aspects of the grammar. Section 6 contains a short glossed translation of a spoken narrative. The grammatical description cross-references this text, so that readers can see the structures embedded in connected discourse.