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Zvelebil, Kamil V.: Nilgiri Areal Studies. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Edited by J. Vacek and J. Dvořák, Philologica Monographia CXXXIII, Prague, The Karolinum Press, 2001, 535 str.

ISBN 80-7184-945-6, ISSN 0567-8269

Authorised complete edition of Prof. K. V. Zvelebil’s work in Nilgiri linguistics and ethnography for the last almost 50 years. The author added a comprehensive Introduction (pp. 17-37), in which he provides a more general view of the problems of the study of the Nilgiri area and of its languages.


Contents briefly:

I. General Survey

II. Early Reports (1954-1955)

III. Irula Language and Culture

IV. Other Nilgiri Languages and Cultures

V. Nigliri Areal Studies

VI. Reviews

VII. Appendices


The work has the character of a monograph. It is provided with detailed indexes and extensive bibliography on the topic.