Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. In this dictionary
Seino van Breugel provides a rigorous well-illustrated and well-referenced lexical description
of the language making this book of great interest and value to general linguists typologists
as well as area specialists and cultural anthropologists. Comprising not only of an
Atong-English but also an English-Atong dictionary as well as semantic lexica this volume is
one of the most thorough lexical descriptions of a Bodo-Garo language to date. The grammatical
lexica allow the reader quick access to lists of members of the various Atong word classes
collocations and idiomatic expressions. The grammatical compendium makes this book
self-contained while its many references link it to the rest of the author's corpus on the
Atong language. The appendix of photos not only provides visual illustrations to many of the
Atong dictionary entries but also offers the reader a glance at the physical environment in
which the language is spoken.
