Atong Texts
Subtitle: Glossed, Translated and Annotated Narratives in a Tibeto-Burman Language of Meghalaya, Northeast India
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9789004371910
Subjects: Tibeto-burman languages
Description: Atong Texts' by Seino van Breugel consists of a collection of 37 glossed, annotated and translated narratives in the Atong language (Tibeto-Burman) of Meghalaya, India, presented in phonemic standard orthography. This testimony of cultural and linguistic heritage of the Atongs, who are members of the Garo Tribe, complements the author's 'A Grammar of Atong' (ISBN 9789004258921), also published by Brill. 0Each text is preceded by a systematic literary analysis. The photos in the appendix provide a visual impression of the environment in which the stories are told. This book is of great value to Tibeto-Burmanists, general linguists, discourse analysts and everyone interested in the languages, history and folklore of Northeast-India in general, and Meghalaya in particular.