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Title:Child3 Recording cycle02 Session06 Child Language Development
CLLDCh3R02S06
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Kalpana
Contributor (speaker):Puspa
Anita
Prithvi
Ganga
Samjhana
Ranjana
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2000-10-30
Description:This is the sixth sesion of the 2nd monthly recording cycle of the child3, Kalpana to 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
The conversation is not in only one topic. Kalpana interacts with her mother very nicely. In this session, Total utterances =221 Total utterances spoken by Kalpana = 85 Total utterances (-COMM) spoken by Kalpana = 85 -22 =63 Other's utterances spoken with Kalpana = 221-85=13 Note: The utterances that are not related to Kalpana are not transcribed in this session.
All the utterances of this session are in Chintang except a few Nepali words.
Kalpana is the target child, Prithvi, Samjhana and Ranjana are her elder sibling, Ganga is her cousin. Puspa is their neighbour and our local informant and Goma is the collector and the annotator of this session.
Puspa is called Sani Kanchi in her family and in her neighbourhood. She is the neighbour of all our target children in Chintang. She is our local assistant as well. She has passed class 10. Her mother is Sambhong Rai, a clan of Chintang and her father is Yupuchhung rai, a clan of Bantanwa.
Anita Rai is the mother of the child, Kalpana. She is a housewife and a farmer. Sometimes she goes to work in others' farming field on wage. She is Khukkhang, a clan of Chintang.
Prithvi Narayan is the elder brother of Kalpana. He is also called Perte and Pecce. He is the only one son in his family. He sometimes goes to school with his elder siblings. He is Kamala's father's younger brother's son.
Ganga is the elder sister of Kamala Rai and Kalpana's father's elder brother's daughter. She is known as 'mahili (second female sibling)' in her family. She is the second child of her parents. She is a student. She reads in class three.
Kalpana is the youngest child of her parents and the daugheter of Kamala's father's younger brother. She is also called 'kanchi' at her home. She has three elder siblings. Her mother is Khukkhang and father is Sangpang and their native language is Chintang.
Samjhana is called 'Jethi' in her family. She is the eldest sister of Kalpana. She is a student. She is reading in class 3. She helps her parents in the household works also.
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.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000E-01BE-1
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: Puspa (speaker); Anita (speaker); Prithvi (speaker); Ganga (speaker); Kalpana; Samjhana (speaker); Ranjana (speaker). 2000-10-30. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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