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The Ḥphags-pa letter ḥ and laryngeal phenomena in Mongolian and Chinese (2009)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2009). The Ḥphags-pa letter ḥ and laryngeal phenomena in Mongolian and Chinese. Central Asiatic journal, 53(2), 183-205

Tibetan <ḥ-> as a plain initial and its place in Old Tibetan Phonology (2009)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2009). Tibetan as a plain initial and its place in Old Tibetan Phonology. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 32(1), 115-140

Beginning with de Kőrös (1834) many researchers have held that the Tibetan letter འ <ḥ> as a simple initial represents a voiced fricative. In 1881 Jäschke initiated an alternative view, which holds that this letter has no phonetic value, instead repr... Read More about Tibetan <ḥ-> as a plain initial and its place in Old Tibetan Phonology.

Old Tibetan Inscriptions (2009)
Book
Iwao, K., Hill, N. W., & Takeuchi, T. (2009). Old Tibetan Inscriptions. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction. By James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 (2009)
Journal Article
Hill, N. W. (2009). Review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction. By James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Language and linguistics = 語言暨語言學, 10(1), 173-195

Proposing many new cognate sets and building on many decades of his own previous research, Matisoff (2003) represents a major contribution to Tibeto-Burman linguistics. Unfortunately, Matisoff’s use of Tibetan is marred by errors of fact and analysis... Read More about Review of Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction. By James A. Matisoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.