Maithili : Some Aspects of Its Phonetics and Phonology presents an account of some phonetic and phonological aspects of a variety of the ‘standard’ dialect of Maithili, a modern Indo-Aryan language spoken by more than 21 million people in the northern and eastern regions of the state of Bihar in India and in the Tarai districts of Nepal. The contents of this book are divided into eight chapters. The first chapter is introductory, and it concentrates its ...