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Title:Child2 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session06 Child Language Development
CLLDCh2R11S06
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Goma
Kamala
Contributor (speaker):Ashu
Sangita
Man Bhakta
Sun Kumari
Phul Maya
Ganga
Ranjana
Khel Bahadur
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-02-20
Description:This is the 6th session of the 11th monthly recording cycle of the child2, Kamala for the study 'Child Language Development'.
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
Kamala and Asuki play with rodadendron. At the time of recording Kalpana and Ranjana come. Total utterances =392 Total utterances by Kamala =66 Total utterances by Kamala (-COMM) =66-12=54 Others' utterances =392-66=326 Others' utterances (-COMM) =326-36=290 Adult to Adult utterances =5
In this session, the converstion is in Chintang language except a few Nepali utterances.
Kamala is the target child, Phul Maya is her mother, Man Bhakta is her grandfather, and Goma is the collector and the annotator.
Ash Kumari Rai is the elder sister of Kamala Rai and the fifth daughter of Kalpana's father's elder brother. She is also called Ash Kumari. She is the fifth daughter of her parents.She often stays at home. She sometimes goes to the school.
She is the daughter of Kamala's father's elder sister. She lives in the same village. She is a student. She reads in class 3.
Man Bhakta is the father of Kamala's and Kalpana's father. Most often he stays in Dhankuta with his youngest son.
Sun Kumari is the elder sister of Kamala. She is the fourth child of her parents. She is a student. She reads in class one. She takes care of Kamala in her mother's absence.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
Phul Maya Rai is the mother of our target child, Kamala Rai. She has 6 daughters. She is a housewife and a farmer as well. She is from Khukkhang and married to Sangpang.
She is the mother of Kamala's father. She lives in Chintang only during the festivals. Otherwise she lives in Dhankuta headquater with her youngest son. She is from Arihang and married to Sangpang. In Chintang, she helps to her son and daughter in law (Kamala's parents) in the household works and farming.
Ranjana is the elder sister of Kalpana . She is also called Ranje. She is the second child of her parents. She is a student. She reads in class 1. She caretakes her sister Kalpana in her mother's absence. She is also the daughter of Kamala's father's younger brother.
Khel Bahadur is the elder brother of Khem. He is the second child of his parents. He is a student. He studies in class 5. Sometimes he also assists in child language recording.
Kamala is the youngest daughter of her parents. She has five elder sisters.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EF24-5
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: Ashu (speaker); Sangita (speaker); Man Bhakta (speaker); Sun Kumari (speaker); Goma; Phul Maya (speaker); Ganga (speaker); Ranjana (speaker); Khel Bahadur (speaker); Kamala. 2005-02-20. 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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