The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas

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The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas is written by Anju Saxena and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004513647 (ISBN 10) and 9789004513648 (ISBN 13).

This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.