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Publication details [#30295]

Hamill, James, H. Sidky and Janardan Subedi. 2002. Birds for words in Jirel: Structure and function in a Tibeto-Burman folk taxonomy. Anthropological Linguistics 44 (1) : 65–84.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Indiana University
ISBN
0003-5483

Annotation

This contribution to ethnographic research on the Jirel people of eastern Nepal, explores the semantic structure of Jirel words for birds. This offers no surprises in general folk classification literature, but the bird lexicon misses specific and varietal taxa, although Jirel speakers make clear subdivisions that refer to meanings that more closely conform to a natural core model.