Editor - Profile:local/SESSION.Profile.xml2006-09-15https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-000D-FCFA-4clarin.eu:cr1:p_1407745712035DoBeS archive : Chintang and Puma Documentation ProjectResourcehttp://www.cpdp.uzh.chLandingPagehttps://archive.mpi.nl/islandora/object/tla%3A1839_00_0000_0000_000D_FCFA_4#NAME:imdi2cmdi.xslt DATE:2016-09-09T16:16:11.053+02:00.CLLDCh3R11S08Child3 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session08 Child Language Development2005-02-20This is the 8th session of the 11th monthly recording cycle of the child3, Kalpana for the study, 'Child Language Development'.AsiaNepalEast Nepal
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Dhankuta
Chintang and Puma Documentation ProjectDocumentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern NepalCPDPProf. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
Institut für Linguistik, Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
bickel@uni-leipzig.deUniversity of LeipzigThe 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.ConversationChild TalkUnspecifiedspeechUnspecifiedinteractivespontaneousnon-elicitedFamilyConversationFace to FaceExcept a few utterances in Nepali, the utterances in the whole session are in Chintang language.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalseUnspecifiedUnspecifiedNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtrueUnspecifiedUnspecifiedChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Kalpana scolds Prithvi. Kalpana lets Samjhana eat her rice. Samjhana makes Kalpana wear shoes. Kalpana's father cuts Kalpana's nails with a blade.
Total utterance = 345
Total Kalpana's utterances = 138
Total Kalpana's utterances (-communicators) = 138-17 =121
Total others' utterances to Kalpana = 345 -138=207
Others' utterances to Kalpana (-communicators) = 207- 15 = 192
Adult to adult utterances (AA) = 0In this session, there are altogether 7 participants. Among them, Kalpana is the target child, Mekh Bahadur is her father, Samjhana, Ranjana and Prithvi are her elder siblings, Khel Bahadur is a neighbour and our occassional local assistant in child language recordings and Goma is the collector and the annotator of the session.Speaker/SignerSamjhanaSamjhana RaiSAMJelder sisterSangpang Rai1996-01-12FemaleSchoolfalse918Samjhana Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
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.She is fluent in Chintang and Nepali.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Speaker/SignerRanjanaRanjana RaiRANJSiblingSangpang Rai1997-10-23FemalePrimary schoolfalse7328Ranjana Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
Ranjana is the elder sister of Kalpana. She is also called Ranje and maĩli. 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.She is fluent in Chintang (mother tongue) and Nepali.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Speaker/SignerMekh BahadurMekh Bahadur RaiMBRFatherSangpang RaiUnspecifiedMaleLiteratefalse28Mekh Bahadur Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
Mekh Bahadur is also known as 'Mekhe saĩla' in Chintang. He is the father of Kalpana. He has four children. He loves his children very much. He is a farmer and a porter as well. He is also the younger brother of Kamala's father.He is fluent in Chintang, Bantawa and Nepali.ISO639-3:bapBantawafalsefalseBantawa is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It is spoken in and around Bhojpur, but also further south of the district and many adjoining areas. Bantawa is the Kiranti language with the highest number of speakers.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Speaker/SignerPrithviPrithvi Narayan RaiPNRCousinSangpang RaiUnspecifiedMalenonefalse5Prithvi Narayan Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
GBPrithvi 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.He is fluent in Chintang (his mother tongue). He speaks Nepali well.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Target childKalpanaKalpana RaiLDCh3yongest daughterSangpang Rai2001-04-06Femalenonefalse31014Kalpana Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
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.Kalpana is equally fluent in both Chintang and Nepali language though Chintang is her mother tongue.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.CollectorGomaGoma BanjadeGBUnspecifiedBrahmin1976-03-12FemaleUniversityfalse28118Goma Banjade
Central Department of Linguistics
gbanjade@yahoo.comTribhuvan UniversityAssistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language DevelopmentGoma is Nepali native speaker. She is fluent in Nepali and English. She knows some Danuwar while doing her M.A. Thesis and Chintang from the field work of CPDP project. She understands but does not speak Awadhi and Hindi.ISO639-3:dhwDanuwarfalsefalseISO639-3:hinHindifalsefalseISO639-3:ctnChintangfalsefalseChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the palatal stop is sometimes transcribed as ch; h indicates aspiration) is one of the languages studied by the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classified along with Athpare, Belhariya (Belhare), and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC. Most speakers are trilingual in Chintang, Nepali and Bantawa. The language is polysynthetic, double-marking (on all levels) and verb final.ISO639-3:engEnglishfalsefalseISO639-3:nepNepalitruetrueNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:awaAwadhifalsefalseSpeaker/SignerKhel BahadurKhel Bahadur RaiKHELSiblingChintang RaiUnspecifiedMaleSchoolfalse14Khel Bahadur Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
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. His father is Khukkhang and mother is Teli Rai, both Khukkhang and Teli belog to the Chintang clan.He is fluent in Chintang (mother tongue) and Nepali. He also knows some Bantawa.ISO639-3:nepNepalifalsefalseNepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.ISO639-3:bapBantawafalsefalseBantawa is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It is spoken in and around Bhojpur, but also further south of the district and many adjoining areas. Bantawa is the Rai language with the highest number of speakers.ISO639-3:ctnChintangtruetrueChintang (also spelled Chhintang, as the initial palatal is aspirated) is one of the languages studies and documented by the Chintang Puma Documentation project. It is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It may be classed along with Athpare, Belhariya, and Chiling as one subgroup of the Eastern Rai languages. Chintang is spoken as mother tongue by around 4000 speakers in Chintang VDC, and nowhere else, except in one ward of Ahale VDC.Unspecified