Tibetan Books

New and Published Books

1. China's Assimilationist Language Policy

   The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony

   Edited by Gulbahar H. Beckett, Gerard A. Postiglione

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At...

   Published October 26th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Sino-Tibetan Languages

   Edited by Randy J. LaPolla, Graham Thurgood

   Series: Routledge Language Family Series

   There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades....

   Published April 16th 2007 by Routledge