Panini snippet index from requests HTML 39 3rd: 2015 40 Linda Konnerth(University of Oregon, USA)A Grammar of Karbi, University of Oregon, 2014. Karbi grammar excerpt lines from pdftotext: Title: A GRAMMAR OF KARBI by LINDA ANNA KONNERTH. A DISSERTATION. Presented to Department of Linguistics and Graduate School University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of requirements for Doctor of Philosophy. Degree awarded March 2014. Dissertation abstract: Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. Phonology chapter: There are a total of 18 consonant phonemes in Karbi that contrast with each other in minimal sets. All but one of the 18 phonemes, which is the velar nasal /ŋ/, occur at the beginning of syllables.