Robert Shafer

linguist

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Tibeto-Burman languages

  • relationships among the Tibeto-Burman languages
    In Tibeto-Burman languages: History of scholarship

    …until the late 1930s, when Robert Shafer headed a project called Sino-Tibetan Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. This project assembled all the lexical material then available on TB languages, enabling Shafer to venture a detailed subgrouping of the family at different taxonomic levels, called (from higher to lower)…

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