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Beṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Beṭṭa Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 652
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Publication Date:
11 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004378223
Format: Hardcover
"The texts in ATBK are only a part of those that Coelho has collected over the past quarter century. Dravidian scholars will applaud her admirable achievement and look forward to the future publication of additional texts and grammatical analysis of this fascinating, understudied language. ATBK is the foundational study on which all subsequent study of BK will stand."
-Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.
-Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.
Gail Coelho, Ph.D. (2003, University of Texas at Austin), is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delhi. She has several publications in language analysis and documentation, including The Re-emergence of Finite Serial Verbs in South Dravidian (Walter de Gruyter, 2012).