Introduction to the Site


This web site is still a work in progress. The goal of the site is to make available information on the languages and cultures of the Rawang, Dulong, and Anong peoples. There are three parts to this site: the General Dialect Map, the Feature Distribution Maps, and the comparative information. In the left frame of the window, there are eight buttons for accessing general information about the group as a whole, comparative information, and other links, and two buttons for accessing the two types of map:

Introduction to the Rawang-Dulong-Anong Web Site
Linguistic Introduction
Ethnological Introduction
General Dialect Map
Images and Videos
Bibliography and Papers on Rawang-Dulong-Anong
Comparative Phonology
Comparative Glossaries
Comparative Grammar
Texts
Links to other sites about Tibeto-Burman Languages and Cultures

The General Dialect Map is for seeing the geographic distribution of the dialects, and for making information about each language/dialect on the map easily available. When you click on a particular name (in black) on the map (right now only Northern Dulongjiang is fully active), pop-up menus appear with the following items:

Ethnological Information
Phonemic Inventory
Outline Grammar
Texts
Photos

Unlike the links given in the left frame of the window, these links are specific to one particular language/dialect.

The Feature Distribution Maps, when they are completed, will give the geographic spread of various cultural or linguistic features that vary in the group, such as tone systems and other phonetic features, and relational marking.

Credits

This site is owned and copyrighted (c2001) by Randy J. LaPolla, Department of Chinese, Translation, and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.

The content is supplied by Randy J. LaPolla, Stéphane GROS, Department of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, University of Paris X-Nanterre, and Dory Poa, Department of Chinese, Hong Kong Institute of Education. Photos of the Rawang people were contributed by P. Christiaan Klieger, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118.
The layout and page-creation was done by Randy J. LaPolla.


Last modified: March 17, 2003