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ISBN 10: 1740591488
ISBN 13: 9781740591485
Author: David Bradley
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Leave no Hill Tribe subgroup or culture unimpressed by a dash of your multi-lingual bon mots. Whether you're trekking Vietnam, China, Laos, Thailand or beyond, let this handy phrasebook do some talking.
Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place. Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so you can always rely on us to tell it like it is.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, David Bradley, Christopher Court, Nerida Jarkey, and Paul W Lewis.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
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Introduction
Overview of the hill tribes of Southeast Asia
Importance of language in cultural understanding
Purpose and structure of the phrasebook
The Languages
Introduction to the linguistic landscape of the hill tribes
Discussion on language families and relationships
Lahu
Culture, subgroups, and locations
Phonetics and sounds
Grammar and sentence structure
Common words and phrases
Akha
Cultural context and distribution
Pronunciation guide
Grammatical features
Useful expressions and vocabulary
Lisu
Ethnographic background
Sound system and orthography
Syntax and morphology
Everyday phrases and terms
Mong
Cultural overview
Phonological aspects
Sentence construction
Practical vocabulary
Other Hill Tribes
Brief introductions to additional languages and cultures
Comparative linguistic features
Selected phrases and expressions
Index of Languages
Alphabetical listing of languages covered
Cross-references to relevant sections
Index of Maps
Geographical maps highlighting regions where each language is spoken
Cultural and linguistic distribution maps
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Tags: David Bradley, Hill Tribes phrasebook, phrasebook, Lonely Planet
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