Proto Northern Chin

Number 10 in the STEDT Monograph Series presents Proto Northern Chin. This represents a thoroughly updated and revised version of Christopher Button’s 2009 doctoral dissertation (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). The work is based on fieldwork conducted by Button in Burma (2006-07) on six Northern Chin languages (Mizo, Zahau, Thado, Zo, Tedim, Sizang) and is divided into two sections. Volume 1, An Old Burmese and Old Chinese Perspective, includes chapters on Northern Chin Phonology, Northern Chin Morphology, Old Burmese, Old Chinese, Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman, and concludes with a list of Sino-Tibetan Comparative Sets. Volume 2, An Etymological Dictionary of Northern Chin, is devoted entirely to Proto Northern Chin reconstructions, arranged in Proto Northern Chin alphabetical order and by English glosses. On the cover: Author’s photographs of Chin textiles.