Kanauri am 'path'
The Kanauri and Almora dialects in the Western Himalayas employ a word am (or am in D. D. Sharma's recent publications) for `path', which looks so close to general TB and WT lam `path',1 but for the missing initial 1-, that R. Shafer has suspected a genetic link, but could not explain...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178086 |
Summary: | The Kanauri and Almora dialects in the Western Himalayas employ a word am (or am in D. D. Sharma's recent publications) for `path', which looks so close to general TB and WT lam `path',1 but for the missing initial 1-, that R. Shafer has suspected a genetic link, but could not explain the phonological relationship (Shafer 1974:141). The Kanauri form is apparently not mentioned in Benedict 1972. There are more Kanauri words without the expected I-. |
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