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This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

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Anju Saxena, Ph.D. (1992), University of Oregon, is Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University. She has long experience with researching and conducting fieldwork on South Asian languages. Her publications include Himalayan Languages (De Gruyter Mouton, 2004) and the co-edited volume Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences (De Gruyter Mouton, 2013). She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton) and as Series Editor of Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages (Brill).

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