Review of 'Seino van Breughel. A grammar of Atong' (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 5). Leiden: Brill, 2014, 660 pp., ISBN 9789004258921. €231,00 (Hb)

George van Driem

doi:10.1515/jsall-2016-0012

Review of 'Seino van Breughel. A grammar of Atong' (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 5). Leiden: Brill, 2014, 660 pp., ISBN 9789004258921. €231,00 (Hb)

George van Driem

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Abstract

Atong is a language of the Bodo-Koch branch of the Trans-Himalayan, or Tibeto-Burman, language family.1 Within Bodo-Koch, which is a relatively cohesive but still internally diverse subgroup of languages, Atong shows close genetic affinity with Rabha. Atong is spoken by an uncounted number of people, perhaps numbering in the several thousands, in the South Garo Hills district, in scattered settlements in the south-central Meghālaya north of the town of Bāghmārā.

Original language	English
Pages	231-232
Volume	3
No.	2
Specialist publication	Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2016-0012
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Review of 'Seino van Breughel. A grammar of Atong' (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 5). Leiden: Brill, 2014, 660 pp., ISBN 9789004258921. €231,00 (Hb)

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