Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 6, 127, (1). Small damage to upper right corner in parts (no loss). Original blue printed boards, cloth spine. Presentation copy to Ralph Lilley Turner (British Orientalist and linguist). First edition of a grammar of the Dafla or Nishi language. This is a Tibetan-Burman language spoken by groups in Assam on the North-East frontier of British India. The author describes the Eastern rather than the Western dialect of the Dafla language. A limited edition of 300 copies.

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An Outline Grammar of the Dafla Language as Spoken by the Tribes immediately South of the Apa Tanang Country. Shillong, The Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1900.

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1900

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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