The Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Domain

The Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Domain is meant to be a general umbrella for disseminating information about Tibeto-Burman languages, cultures, and linguistics, and for improving communication between scholars working on Tibeto-Burman languages and cultures. To post information or links on this site, contact Randy LaPolla. (In the page below, click on the titles for links to more information.)

The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project is pleased to announce that the project's principal lexicographic database is now available for public use via the world wide web. The database, which has been used in the preparation of several printed compendia in the domain of Sino-Tibetan linguistics, including The Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (2003) and The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System: Toward an Etymological Thesaurus (2008), contains 432,976 lexical items from 566 languages, protolanguages, and dialects of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic area. An initial version of the web interface may be found at http://stedt.berkeley.edu/search

Further background on Sino-Tibetan and the STEDT Project can be found at http://stedt.berkeley.edu/

Note that this web interface is new and not fully tested. It is designed to be simple and accessible, but it does not yet implement a great many features which we plan to incorporate in order to facilitate etymological research. The STEDT project plans several releases, both of improved software as well as the data itself, in the current grant cycle. Your feedback and suggestions are solicited. You may submit them via the website or email stedt@socrates.berkeley.edu.

The Tibeto-Burman Linguistics listserve discussion list is a relatively informal and unmoderated forum for discussion of any aspect of the analysis of Tibeto-Burman languages (or possibly Sino-Tibetan in general) and the culture of their speakers. It is also a good place to announce events and activities relevant to linguists working on these languages.

To join the list, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org with no subject. In the body of the message type

subscribe tibeto-burman-linguistics First_name Last_name

Where "First_name", "Last_name" are the names of the subscriber. After that, to post a message to the list, send the message to tibeto-burman-linguistics@listserv.linguistlist.org

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area is the only journal devoted to publishing articles on the languages of the Tibeto-Burman language family and their neighbors.

The Bibliography of Tibeto-Burman contains items related to all aspects of Tibeto-Burman linguistics and culture. There are two versions, sorted by author, and sorted by language.

The Rawang-Dulong-Anong Language and Culture Web Site is a joint effort by Randy J. LaPolla (linguistics), Dory Poa (linguistics), Stéphane GROS (anthropology), and Christiaan Klieger (anthropology). It presents information (lexical data, texts, analysis, photos) about the language and culture of the people known as the Rawang of Upper Burma, the Dulong of Yunnan, China, and the Anong, also of Yunnan, China.

The Qiang Language and Culture Web Site is a joint effort by Randy J. LaPolla (linguistics), Dory Poa (linguistics), and Wang Ming-ke (anthropology). It presents information information (lexical data, texts, analysis, photos) about the language and culture of the people known as the Qiang of northern Sichuan Province, China.

Links to Other Sites is a list of sites on other servers that are relevant to Tibeto-Burman languages and cultures.