An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws

Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for. Because of the proven utility of such sound laws in Indo-European linguistics, the explicit listing and naming of sound laws in the Tibeto-Burman family could be expected to bring similar benefits.

Citation

Hill, N. W. (2011). An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 21(4), 441-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186311000332

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Dec 1, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 11, 2025
• Print ISSN: 1356-1863
• Electronic ISSN: 1474-0591
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 441-457
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186311000332
• Keywords: Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan, sound laws, historical phonology
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