Historical and Sociolinguistic Studies of Tibeto-Burman Languages of Two Provinces in Northwestern India

我们的项目有三个目标：(1)调查喜马偕尔邦拉乌尔-斯皮提地区（T. Takeuchi）的藏语方言和北方邦（即北阿坎德邦）西北山区（Uttarkashi， Chasoli和Pithoragarh）的藏缅语（TB）语言（S. R. Sharma和Shree Krishan）；(2)调查北阿坎德邦（Uttarakhand）的藏缅语方言在HP和TB语言中的分布，并研究该地区TB讲话者的社会语言学状况（diglosical / poliglosical）；(3)当所有的语言数据和社会语言学报告都积累起来后，对所有被调查的语言（由项目负责人Y. Nishi负责）进行历史比较研究。我们目标的第一部分和第二部分已经成功地实现了。我们可以获得HP的Tot （Stod）和Khoksar两种西藏方言以及UP的R*ngp* (Rangpa)、Byans和Darma三种TB语言的基本语言数据（包括音位摘要、语法骨架和包含1000多个项目和200多个样句的词汇）。关于结核病语言在HP和北方邦分布的详细信息现已获得，并且在北方邦Uttarakhand的结核病co@ties的三语情况变得清晰起来。我们的目标的第三部分，一个历史比较研究将在后面进行。所有语言数据和社会语言学报告的汇编以及一份比较研究报告将在1992年财政年度作为《古迹Serindica》系列（东京外国语大学亚非语言和文化研究所）出版。

The goal of our project was tripartite : (1) to investigate Tibetan dialects in Lahaul-Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh (HP) (by T. Takeuchi) and Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages in the northwestern hill districts of Uttarkashi, Chasoli and Pithoragarh, of Uttar Pradesh (UP), i. e. Uttarakhand (by S. R. Sharma and Shree Krishan), (2) to survey the distribution of Tibetan dialects in HP and TB languages in Uttarakhand, and to study the, sociolinguistic situation (diglossic/poliglossic) of the TB speakers of the region, and (3) to make a historical comparative study of all the languages under investigation (by Y. Nishi, project leader) when all the language data and sociolinguistic reports were accumulated.The first and second parts of our goal were successfully attained. We could obtain the basic language data (consisting of a phonemic summary, a skeleton grammar, and a vocabulary with more than 1, 000 items and more than two hundred sample sentences) of two Tibetan dialects, Tot (Stod) and Khoksar, in HP and three TB languages, R*ngp* (Rangpa), Byans and Darma in UP. The information on the detail of the distribution of TB languages in HP and UP is now available, and the triglossic situation of the TB co@ties in Uttarakhand, UP became clear. The third part of our goal, a historical comparative study will be made later.A collection of all the language data and sociolinguistic reports, together with a comparative study, will be published as a number of the Monuments Serindica series (Institute for the study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) in fiscal 1992.