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Title:Child3 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session12 Child Language Development
CLLDCh3R11S12
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Kalpana
Goma
Kamala
Contributor (speaker):Prithvi
Ranjana
Ashu
Samjhana
Nisun
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-02-22
Description:This is the 12th session of the 11th monthly recording cycle of the child3, Kalpana for the study '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 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
At first Kalpana play with phirphire and later Kamala and Kalpana pretends to have children with wooden stools In this session, Total utterances = 344 Total utterances spoken by Kalpana = 130
The utterances used in this session are in Chintang, only very few Nepali words are mixed in the utterances.
Kalpana is the target child, Samjhana, Ranjana and Prithvi are her elder siblings, Ashu, Kamala and Nisun are her cousins. Goma is the collector and the annotator of the session.
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.
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.
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 Asu and Antari. She is the fifth daughter of her parents.She often stays at home. She sometimes goes to the school.
Kalpana is the youngest child of her parents. She has three elder siblings. She is the daughter of Kamala's father's younger brother. She is also called Kalpe and Kanchi. Her mother is Khukkhang (a clan of Chintang) and her father is Sangpang.
Samjhana is also called 'Samje' and 'Jethi'. 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.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
Kamala is the youngest daughter of her parents. She has five elder sisters. She is also called 'Kamal, Kamuli, Kanchi etc. Her mother is Khukkhang and her father is Sangpang, but the mother tongue of them is Chintang.
Nusun is the son of Kalpana's maternal uncle. He is a student. He reads in class 2.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000E-08E4-1
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: Prithvi (speaker); Ranjana (speaker); Ashu (speaker); Kalpana; Samjhana (speaker); Goma; Kamala; Nisun (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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