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Title:Child2 Monthly Recording Cycle09 Session05 Child Language Development
CLLDCh2R09S05
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Kamala
Goma
Contributor (speaker):Puspa
Phul Maya
Ganga
Ashu
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-12-20
Description:This is the 5th session of the 9th monthly recording cycle of the child Kamala 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, Devisthan 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 Ashu play in the field with the earth. Puspa talks in the background to Kamala. Kamala anwers. They play with flipflops, stones, a little plastic bottle. Mother then sits with them and plays with them. Kalpana child joins in. Kamala had a threw a temper.
The conversation is in Chintang language in general.
Kamala is the target, Phul Maya is her mother, Ganga Maya is her grandmother, Ashu is her eler sister, Puspa is their neighbour and our local informant. Goma is the collector and the annotator of this session.
Puspa is the neighbour of all our target children in Chintang. She is our local assistant as well. She has passed class 10.
Kamala is the youngest daughter of her parents. She has five elder sisters.
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 the mother of Kamala's father. She lives in Chintang only during the festivals. Otherwise she lives in Dhankuta headquater with her youngest son.
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.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000E-01C5-B
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Conversation
Child talk
Unspecified
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):ctn

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Citation: Puspa (speaker); Kamala; Phul Maya (speaker); Ganga (speaker); Ashu (speaker); Goma. 2004-12-20. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn

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Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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