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Title:Child2 Recording cycle02 Session05 Child Language Development
CLLDCh2R02S05
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Kamala
Goma
Contributor (speaker):Phul Maya
Ganga
Ram Kumari
Lal Bahadur
Parbati
Harki Maya
Ambir
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-05-24
Description:This is the fifth session of the second recording cycle of the child, Kamala in the 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 has gone to the corn field where her mother works. Kamala asks her mother's breast but her male neighbour teases her saying, 'suck my breast'. Her mother and neighbours are weeding out the corns. Kamala also tries to weed with the help of a big spade. In this session, Total utterances =135 Total utterances by Kamala =51 Total utterances by Kamala ( - COMM)=51-18=33 Total others' utterances =135-51 =84 Others' utterances (-COMM) =84-17=67 Adult's utterances (AA) =0
All the speakers speak in Chintang language in this session.
Kamala is the target child, Phul Maya is her mother, Ambir is her father, Ganga is her elder sister, Lal and Parbati are the neighbours and Goma is the collector and the annotator of this session.
Kamala is the youngest daughter of her parents. She is the daughter of Kalpana's father's elder brother. She has five elder sisters. Kamala is known as 'kanchi' at her family and in the village.
Phul Maya Rai is known as Khukkhangma Kaĩli by her neighbours. She is the mother of our target child, Kamala Rai. She has 6 daughters. She is a housewife and a farmer as well. She is Khukkhang, a clan of Chintang Rai and married to Sangpang.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
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.
She is the daughter of Kamala's mother's elder sister. Her home is 5 minutes away upside from Kamalas'. She is a student. She studies in class seven. Sometimes she goes for exchange labour in her neighbours' field.
He is a neighbour of Kamala and Kalpana. He is a farmer and a seasonal businessman. He is known as the 'Lekhane uppa' in the local Chintang lanuage.
She is a neighbour of Kamala and Kalpana. She is a housewife, and a farmer as well. She is a seasonal business man as well. She is known as 'Saduma' and 'Lekhanko ama'. She is Angbura, a clan of Chintang and married to Sangpang.
Harki Maya is the mother's mother of Child2, Kamala Rai and father's mother of the child1, Khem Kumar Rai. Her house is 10 minutes from Kamala's house. She does not stay in only one place. Sometimes, she goes to her eldest son who is in Chintang 5, sometimes to her younger son, Khem's father, sometimes to her daughters, Kamala's mother, and her elder sisters. She is Lengmuk and married to Khukkhang.
Ambir Bahadur Rai is the father of Kamala Rai. He is a farmer. He often goes to work on wage to work in the field. Sometimes, he works as a porter.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000E-08B7-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: Kamala; Phul Maya (speaker); Goma; Ganga (speaker); Ram Kumari (speaker); Lal Bahadur (speaker); Parbati (speaker); Harki Maya (speaker); Ambir (speaker). 2004-05-24. 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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