Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Content -- Introduction -- Trans-Himalayan -- Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages -- Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages -- The Tibetic languages and their classification -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo- European origin -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis -- Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh -- Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung -- Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography -- Index