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Title:Child3 Recording Cycle05 Session04 Child Language Acquisition
CLDLCh3R05S04
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Goma
Saphal
Contributor (speaker):Bipana
Lakhman
Khel Bahadur
Asar Maya
Beli
Durga
Laxmi
Sapana
Sumitra
Pratap
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-02-22
Description:This is the 4th session of the 5th recording cycle of child 3, Saphal for the study, 'Day in the Life of Babies'.
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
Saphal urines in his trousers, his mother took off the wet trousers. She brestfeed Saphal. Sapana makes Saphal wear shorts. There is child-mother interaction in this session. The recording place is new and the people are interested to look at the camera and many people have come. In this session, Total utterances =457 Total utterances spoken by Saphal =26
In this session, 25% utterances are in Nepali and other 75% utterances are in Chintang language.
Saphal is the target child, Asar Maya is his mother, Lakhman is his grandfather, Sapana and Bipana are his elder sisters, Durga, Laxmi and Pratap are the neighbours of Saphal's grandfather. Khel Bahadur is their neibhbour and our local informant as well. Goma is the collector and the annotator of the session.
Bipana is the daughter of Man Kumar's mother's younger sister. She is also the second elder sister of Saphal. She is also called 'maĩli' in her family and in her neighbourhood. She is a student. She reads in class one.
He is father's father of Saphal. He loves his grandchildren very much. He looks after his cattles. He often lives in the separate house, 30 minutes away from here.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
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. He is the son of Kamala's maternal uncle and neighbour of all our target children. He is also called 'Khele' in his family and in his neighbourhood.
Asar Maya is the mother of Saphal. She is Lengmuk (a clan of Bantawa) and married to Puma Rai. She has 4 children. She is a housewife and a farmer as well. She is Lengmuk (a clan of Bantawa) married to Puma Rai.
Beli is a friend to Saphal's elder sisters Sapana and Bipana. She reads in class 2.
She is a neighbour of Saphal's family. She has five children. Her youngest son, Pratap is the same age as Saphal. She is a housewife and a farmer.
She is a neighbouring child to Saphal's grandfather.
Sapana is the eldest daughter of Saphal and the daughter of Man Kumar's mother's younger sister. She is a student. She reads in class 4.
Saphal is the youngest child of his parents. He has three elder sisters.
She lives in Chintang VDC, ward No. 4 at Guranse. She is a neighbour of Saphal's grandfather.
Pratap is a neighbouring child of Saphal's grandfather in Guranse. His home is 3 minutes away from Saphal's grandfather's home.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-FD05-E
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: Bipana (speaker); Lakhman (speaker); Goma; Khel Bahadur (speaker); Asar Maya (speaker); Beli (speaker); Durga (speaker); Laxmi (speaker); Sapana (speaker); Saphal; Sumitra (speaker); Pratap (speaker). 2005-02-22. 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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