Revised Tiwa word list

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Typed Tiwa word list arranged alphabetically by English gloss including columns for original spelling, revised spelling, gloss, and source of information in Burling's handwritten field notes. Glosses minimally include simple English translations, as well as lexical categories, comparisons to Garo, and brief comments on wordhood, transitivity, usage, and affixes.

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Burling, Robbins [2001..2010].

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Typed Tiwa word list arranged alphabetically by English gloss including columns for original spelling, revised spelling, gloss, and source of information in Burling's handwritten field notes. Glosses minimally include simple English translations, as well as lexical categories, comparisons to Garo, and brief comments on wordhood, transitivity, usage, and affixes.

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This is a collection of digitized materials created and collected by Dr. Robbins Burling (1926-2021). Over the course of his career as an anthropologist and linguist, Dr. Burling was among the most beloved and influential researchers working in Northeast India, having traveled to India regularly from the 1950s until well after his retirement from the University of Michigan in 1995.

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Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar (Text)

Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar

Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology (tone, glottals, syllable structure) and grammar (case, adverbials, compounds, classifiers, negation) with sample sentences and phrases. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (animals, body parts, natural world, household, agriculture, verbs of motion/ break/ cut/ carry/ burn/ boil, time, and health).

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Burling, Robbins. Revised Tiwa word list, text, [2001..2010]; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2062335/: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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