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Resource http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch LandingPage https://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. CLLDCh3R11S08 Child3 Monthly Recording Cycle11 Session08 Child Language Development 2005-02-20 This is the 8th session of the 11th monthly recording cycle of the child3, Kalpana for the study, 'Child Language Development'. Asia Nepal East Nepal
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Dhankuta
Chintang and Puma Documentation Project Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal CPDP Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
Institut für Linguistik, Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
bickel@uni-leipzig.de University of Leipzig
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.
Conversation Child Talk Unspecified speech Unspecified interactive spontaneous non-elicited Family Conversation Face to Face Except a few utterances in Nepali, the utterances in the whole session are in Chintang language. ISO639-3:nep Nepali false Unspecified Unspecified Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true Unspecified Unspecified Chintang (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) = 0 In 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/Signer Samjhana Samjhana Rai SAMJ elder sister Sangpang Rai 1996-01-12 Female School false 9 1 8 Samjhana 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:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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/Signer Ranjana Ranjana Rai RANJ Sibling Sangpang Rai 1997-10-23 Female Primary school false 7 3 28 Ranjana 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:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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/Signer Mekh Bahadur Mekh Bahadur Rai MBR Father Sangpang Rai Unspecified Male Literate false 28 Mekh 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:bap Bantawa false false Bantawa 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:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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/Signer Prithvi Prithvi Narayan Rai PNR Cousin Sangpang Rai Unspecified Male none false 5 Prithvi Narayan Rai
Chintang VDC, Ward No. 3, Tara Tol, Dhankuta
GB 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. He is fluent in Chintang (his mother tongue). He speaks Nepali well. ISO639-3:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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 child Kalpana Kalpana Rai LDCh3 yongest daughter Sangpang Rai 2001-04-06 Female none false 3 10 14 Kalpana 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:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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.
Collector Goma Goma Banjade GB Unspecified Brahmin 1976-03-12 Female University false 28 11 8 Goma Banjade
Central Department of Linguistics
gbanjade@yahoo.com Tribhuvan University
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development Goma 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:dhw Danuwar false false ISO639-3:hin Hindi false false ISO639-3:ctn Chintang false false Chintang (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:eng English false false ISO639-3:nep Nepali true true Nepali 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:awa Awadhi false false
Speaker/Signer Khel Bahadur Khel Bahadur Rai KHEL Sibling Chintang Rai Unspecified Male School false 14 Khel 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:nep Nepali false false Nepali 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:bap Bantawa false false Bantawa 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:ctn Chintang true true Chintang (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.
CPGBVDP20Feb0501 DV 1 00:40:15 00:58:55 Unspecified Unspecified