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Title:Child4 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session09 Child Language Development
CLLDCh4R11S09
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Man Kumar
Goma
Contributor (speaker):Rupa
Ruma
Khuma
Indra
Khel Bahadur
Ganga
Susma
Lok Kumari
Pramila
Ram
Laxman
Ilu
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-02-21
Description:This is the 9th session of the 11th recording cycle of the child4, Man Kumar 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
In this session, children play with the wooden plough. Man Kumar plough and Ruma pulls the plough. He takes care of his younger twins brothers. In this session, Total Utterances: 285 Utterances having no meanings: Total Man Kumar's utterances: 44 Total Man Kumar's utterances (-communicators): =44-4 =40 Other's utterances to Man Kumar = 285 - 44 = 241 Other's utterances to Man Kumar (-communicators) = 241 - 16 = 225
All the speakers are speaks Chintang language with a few Nepali words mixing.
Man Kumar is the target child, Ganga Kumari is his mother, Indra, Ram, Laxman and Ilu are his sibling. Pramila, Khuma, Rupa, Ruma, Susma are neighbouring children, Lok Kumari and Khel Bahadur are neighbours. And Goma is the collector and annotator of this session
Rupa is a friend of Man Kumar. Her house is the next to Man Kumar's. She often comes to Man Kumar's. Sometimes she goes to school with her elder siblings.
She is the neighbouring child of Man Kumar's family. She is the second daughter of her parents. She goes to school. She reads in class 1. She often comes to Man Kumar's to play.
She is a neighbour of Saphal's family. She is a student. She reads in class 3.
Indra Kumari is the elder sister of the child, Man Kumar. She is the fourth child of her parents. She is also a daughter of Saphal's mother's elder sister. She is a student. She reads in class 1.
Man Kumar is called 'maĩla' and 'mote' in his family and in his neighbourhood. He is one the target children in our recording. He is the fifth child of his parents. He has 6 siblings. The child is very active, most of the time he plays with children.
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.
Ganga Kumari is the mother of the child4, Man Kumar. She has altogether 7 children. She is a housewife and a farmer. She is also known as the 'Jamlema maili'. She is Lengmuk (a clan of Chintang Rai), and married to Puma Rai.
Susma is a neighbouring child of Man Kumar's parents. Her house is next to Man Kumars.
Lok Kumari is a neighbour to Man Kumars' home. She is the second daughter of her parents. He helps her parents on the household works and farming. It takes 3 minutes to her home from Man Kumar's.
She is the daughter of Kalpana's step mother. She lives in her maternal home. She is a student. She reads in class 3.
Ram is the youngest brother of Man Kumar. He is one of the twins.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
Laxman is the youngest brother of Man Kumar. He is one of the twins.
Ilu is the elder sister of Man Kumar. She is the third child of her parents. She is a student. She reads in class 3. She is also a daughter of Saphal's mother's elder sister.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000E-08CA-0
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: Rupa (speaker); Ruma (speaker); Khuma (speaker); Indra (speaker); Man Kumar; Khel Bahadur (speaker); Ganga (speaker); Susma (speaker); Lok Kumari (speaker); Pramila (speaker); Ram (speaker); Goma; Laxman (speaker); Ilu (speaker). 2005-02-21. 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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