George van Driem Books

George van Driem is a Dutch linguist and academic whose work centers on historical linguistics and the documentation of endangered languages. His extensive fieldwork in the Himalayan region, ongoing since 1983, has resulted in the grammatical description of several regional languages, including Dzongkha, Bhutan's national language. Van Driem's research delves into not only linguistic structures but also broader connections, such as the interplay between language and genetics, and the reconstruction of Asia's ethnolinguistic prehistory. His theory of Symbiosism offers a novel perspective on language evolution.