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This is a rich and multifaceted linguistic description of Turung, a variety of the Singpho language spoken in Jorhat, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam, India. The Turung have a mixed ancestry of Tai and Singpho, but their language is clearly the latter (Tibeto-Burman family) though with a substantial stratum of Tai. This publication includes a DVD containing the full text of the grammatical description in web format (xml) with comprehensive links from language examples to recordings, and to the context of the example: transcriptions of the texts from which they are drawn. This innovative approach, pioneered in Stephen Morey’s Tai Languages of Assam – a grammar and texts (Pacific Linguistics, 2005) is extended and enhanced in the present work.