Brill's Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS

Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages

Christopher I. Beckwith

This book on the pre-modern Tibeto-Burman languages represents a movement to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. The book contains papers by T. Takeuchi on Old Zhang-zhung, A. Zadoks on Old Tibetan, K. Tamot on Early Classical Newari; C. Beckwith on Pyu, R. Yanson on Old Burmese, S. Chelliah and S. Ray on Early Meithei, D. Bradley on Tibeto-Burman, and C. Beckwith on Sino-Tibetan. Glossaries of several early Tibeto-Burman languages are included. It provides information, not found in any other source, on early Tibeto-Burman literary languages and their position within Tibeto-Burman as well as their relationship to Chinese and other languages.

Readership: Academic libraries, institutes, public libraries, researchers, students

Christopher I. Beckwith, Ph.D. (1977) is a Professor at Indiana University and a MacArthur Fellow (1986) and the author of The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages (1987) and numerous articles in the fields of medieval studies and linguistics.