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Title:Child1 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session04 Child Language Development
CLLDCh1R11S04
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Khem
Goma
Contributor (speaker):Raj Kumari
Dipa
Ram
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-02-18
Description:This is the 4th session of the 11th monthly recording cycle of the child1, Khem Kumar Rai for the Child Language Development study.
The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch
Ram and Khem play cooking with soil and water. They talk with their mother. Their mother told Khem to wash his leg and he tries to wash. At the last of the session, Ram throws mud and stone downward, at that time that goes towards his mother's face and she scolds him. Total utterances = 232 Total utterances by Khem =67 Total utterances by Khem - COMM =67-14=33 Others' utterances = 232 - 67=165 Others' utterances except COMM = 165-10=155 Note: in this session there is no adult-adult conversation.
The session is full of conversation in Chintang language except a few words in Nepali.
Khem is our target child, Raj Kumari is his mother, Ram is his elder brother and Dipa is his younger sister. Goma is the collector and the annotator.
Khem Kumar Rai is our target child. He is the 6th child in his family. He has two elder sisters, three elder brothers and one younger sister.
Raj Kumari Rai is the mother of Khem Kumar Rai. She has altogether 7 children. Sheis a house wife and a farmer. She is a daughter of Tele Rai and married to Khukkhang Rai.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
She is the youngest sister of Khem.
Ram is the elder brother of Khem and the son of Kamala's mother's elder brother. He is the fifth child of his parents. He is a student. He reads in class two.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEE2-3
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Conversation
Child talk
Unspecified
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):nep
ctn

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Citation: Khem; Raj Kumari (speaker); Goma; Dipa (speaker); Ram (speaker). 2005-02-18. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

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Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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