Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 3 a Grammar of Jero: With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages: 5 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 5/3) - Hardcover

"I know of no better source for the wealth of comparative Kiranti data or a more informed phonological reconstruction." Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Volume 32.1 (April 2009)

This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).