Research Notes on the Zhangzhung Language by Frederick W. Thomas at the British Library (Bon Studies, 14 / Senri Ethnological Reports, 99)

246 pp., bibliography. Contents: Chapter 1. Introductory and Geographical; (1) Geographical; Chapter 2. Historico-geographical; (1) Himalaya in early Indo-Aryan history; (2) Cis-Himalayan peoples and territories; (3) Trans-Himalayan peoples and territories; (3a) Areas of the Ladakh State; (3b) rnNah-ris-skor (khor)-gsum; Chapter 3. Ethnographical; (1) General views; (1a) Hodgson; (1b) Cunningham; (1c) 'Munda' views in the Linguistic Survey of India; (1d) Przyluski's 'Austro-Asiatic' view; (1e) Khasa theory; (2) Some remarks on the two wide views; (3) Indications in early Sanskrit literature; (4) Modern observations and deductions; (4a) Cis-Himalayan regions; 1. Two generalities; 2. Ethnographically significant usages; 3. Kanets: status and usages (general); 4. Kanets: distinctive usages; 5. Three main areas of Western cis-Hima;laya populations; 6. Origins (traditional or hypothetic) of Ghirths Rathis and Kanets; 7. Kanets and Kunindas (with Tanganas); 8. Kanet divisions (Khash and Rao); 9. Khasas and Nepal Khas; 10. Kiratas; 11. 'Menial' classes; 12. Bhotias; (4b) Trans-Himalayan territories; 1. Anthropological date and deductions; 2. Tibetan and other extrinsic items in nomenclature of peoples and classes; 3. Material analogies between Trans and Cis-Himalayan conditions; 4. Beda and Mon; 5. Early relations with outside peoples; 6. Hunza-Nagar; 7. Khotan and Kashmir; 8. Bru-sa and Balti; Chapter 4. Linguistic; (1) Cis-Himalayan areas; (1a) Indo-Aryan languages; 1. Dating of lndo-Aryan languages; 2. Early and other loan-words in, or from, Indo-Aryan: preservation of old forms; 3. A wide-spread phonetic change; (1b) Tibeto-Burman languages; 1. Bhotiya; 2. The 'Western pronominalized 'sub-group'; 3. Geographical distribution of the 'Western sub-group'; 4. Bhot and Bhotiya; 5. The 'Western sub-group' and its pronominalization; 6. Kunawari, bibliography, names and dialects; 7. Kunawari, a phonological item; 8. Kunawari Grammars and Vocabularies; 9. Class-features and interrelations in the 'Westrn sub-group'; 10. Some features of the 'Western sub-group' in relation to Tibetan; 11. Suffixed elements in Declension and Conjugation; (2) Trans-Himalayan territories; (2a) General; (2b) Bru-sa; (2c) Zan-Zun; (2d) Summary; Chapter 5. The language of the medical Mss.…