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Seino van Breugel
Seino van Breugel is currently working on a descriptive grammar of the Atong language under the supervision of Professor Randy J. LaPolla. He joined RCLT in March 2005 after completion of his MA in Comparative Tibeto-Burman Linguistics at Leiden University.
Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the area along the Simsang river in the Garo Hills in Meghalaya, India. There might be as many as 20,000 speakers of the language at present, although official numbers are not available. To outsiders Atong speakers will often identify themselves as Garo. The Garos are a neighbouring tribe with whom the Atongs intermarry but whose language, although a close relative, is quite different from Atong.
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