Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: The Himalayas in history; Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal; PART TWO: Phonology and script; A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha; Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan -- an introduction to the "Twenty-four villages' patois"; PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes); On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons; A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar; PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax; The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang Tibetan.
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