Research Guides: List of Grammars (Non-Indo-European): Asia

Languages of Asia

Anong
Myanmar, China (Sino-Tibetan)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Ao (Mongsen)
India (Sino-Tibetan)
Approved for LING 115
Arabic
Egypt, Yemen (Afro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
- Title: The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic
Arabic (classical)
Saudi Arabia (Afro-Asiatic)
Arabic (standard)
Saudi Arabia (Afro-Asiatic)
Not approved for LING 115
Aramaic
Middle East (Afro-Asiatic)
Not approved for LING 115
Aramaic (Biblical)
Israel-Palestine (Afro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
Bohtan Neo-Aramaic
Georgia (Afro-Asiatic)
Cantonese (Modern)
China (Sino-Tibetan)
- Title: Modern Cantonese Phonology
Chinese (1997)
China (Sino-Tibetan)
Chinese (Standard)
China (Sino-Tibetan)
Approved for LING 115
- Contrastive Tone
- Title: The Phonology of Standard Chinese
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Chinese, Mandarin
China (Sino-Tibetan)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Domari
Iran (Indo-Iranian)
Approved for LING 115
Hebrew
Israel (Afro-Asiatic)
Not approved for LING 115
Hebrew (Biblical)
Israel (Afro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Hebrew (Mishnaic)
Israel (ancient) – (Afro-Asiatic)
Hindi (1967)
India (Indo-Iranian)
Not approved for LING 115
Hindi (1995)
India (Indo-Iranian)
Not approved for LING 115
Hindi (2006)
India (Indo-Iranian)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Japanese (1980)
Japan (Japonic)
Not approved for LING 115
- Tone ("pitch accent") Language
- See also: A History of the Japanese Language
Japanese (2002, rev. 2013)
Japan (Japonic)
Approved for LING 115
- Tone ("pitch accent") Language
- See also: A History of the Japanese Language
Japanese (2012)
Japan (Japonic)
Approved for LING 115
- Title: Japanese Phonology
- Tone ("pitch accent") Language
- How have past students rated this grammar?
- See also: A History of the Japanese Language
Kannada (Spoken)
India (Dravidian)
- Alternate Names: Banglori, Canarese, Kanarese, Madrassi
Kazakh
Kazakhstan (Altaic)
Not approved for LING 115
Kham
Nepal (Sino-Tibetan)
Kharia
India (Austro-Asiatic)
Khmer, Central (Cambodian)
Cambodia (Austro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Kohistani, Indus
Pakistan (Indo-Iranian)
Kolami
India (Dravidian)
Approved for LING 115
Korean (1996)
Korea (Language Isolate)
- See also: A History of the Korean Language
Korean (2006)
Korea (Language Isolate)
Not approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
- See also: A History of the Korean Language
Korean (2010)
Korea (Language Isolate)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
- N.B.: Many examples are given only in Hangul; however, a full explanation of how to read Hangul is in the grammar. Best for a student who can already read Hangul or who wishes to learn how to read Hangul.
- See also: A History of the Korean Language
Kurtop
Bhutan (Sino-Tibetan)
Kyrgyz
Kyrgyzstan (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
Lahu
China (Sino-Tibetan)
Lao
Laos (Tai-Kadai)
Not approved for LING 115
Lepcha
India (Sino-Tibetan)
Madurese
Indonesia (Austronesian)
Maithili
India (Indo-Iranian)
- Alternate Names: Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
Malay, Jambi
Indonesia (Austronesian)
Manchu
China (Altaic)
Marathi
India (Indo-Iranian)
Mong Njua
Laos (Hmong-Mien)
Not approved for LING 115
Mongolian
Mongolia (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
- Title: The Phonology of Mongolian
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Nepali
Nepal (Indo-Iranian)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Palestinian Jewish Aramaic
Israel-Palestine (Afro-Asiatic)
Not approved for LING 115
Pali
India (Indo-Iranian)
Not approved for LING 115
Pashto
Pakistan & Afghanistan (Indo-Iranian)
Proto-Tai
China, Southeast Asia (Tai-Kadai)
- N.B. The Phonology of Proto-Tai ; Use the "find it" button to request through ILL.
Qiang
China (Sino-Tibetan)
Samaritan
Palestine (Afro-Asiatic)
Sanskrit
India (Indo-Iranian)
Not approved for LING 115
Sinhala
Sri Lanka (Indo-Iranian)
Sunwar
Nepal (Sino-Tibetan)
Syriac (New Testament)
Turkey, Iraq, Syria (Afro-Asiatic)
Tagalog (1905)
Philippines (Austronesian)
Not approved for LING 115
Tagalog (1972)
Philippines (Austronesian)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Tamil
India (Dravidian)
Approved for LING 115
Teiwa (Pantar)
Indonesia (Trans-New Guinea)
Tibetan
India, China, and neighboring countries (Sino-Tibetan)
Not approved for LING 115
Toda
India (Dravidian)
Approved for LING 115
Tsat
China, Southern (Austronesian)
- Alternate Names: Hainan Cham, Hui, Huihui, Sanya Hui, Utsat, Utset
Tshangla
Bhutan (Sino-Tibetan)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Tukang Besi
Indonesia (Austronesian)
Approved for LING 115
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Turkish (1976)
Turkish (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
- Not tone language
Turkish (2010)
Turkey (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
- Not tone language
- How have past students rated this grammar?
- An older edition (1997) is also available.
Tuvan
Russia (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
- Contrastive Tone
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Ugaritic
Syria (ancient) – (Afro-Asiatic)
Urdu
Pakistan (Indo-Iranian)
Not approved for LING 115
Uzbek
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan (Altaic)
Approved for LING 115
Vietnamese
Viet Nam (Austro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
- Tone Language: discussion pp. 15–
- How have past students rated this grammar?
Vietnamese (Annamese)
Viet Nam (Austro-Asiatic)
Approved for LING 115
- Tone Language: very brief discussion p. 28
Wutun
China (Mixed Language)
Approved for LING 115