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Language Contact and the Politics of Recognition amongst Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China: |
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Vertical and Horizontal Politics of Language Contact in Tibet |
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The rTa’u-speaking ‘Horpa’: Ambiguous Origins and Shifting Polysemy |
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What Happened to the Ahom Language? The Politics of Language Contact in Assam |
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Transforming Language to Script: Constructing Linguistic Authority through Language Contact in Schools in Nepal |
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The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Spatial Variations Across the Kaike-Speaking Diaspora of Nepal |
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Speaking Chone, Speaking ‘Shallow’: Dual Linguistic Hegemonies in China’s Tibetan Frontier |
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Concluding Thoughts on Language Shift and Linguistic Diversity in the Himalaya: The Case of Nepal |
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