Published September 15, 2020
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Kanise Khumi Wordlist Data
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IPA transcriptions and audio recordings of a wordlist in Kanise Khumi. The name Kanise Khumi is a name that the people who speak the language adopted in 2016. Previously, the language and the people who spoke it were referred to by names of some of the larger clans, such as Nideun, Tahaensae (Taheunso), or Uiphaw. It shares an ISO code with other self identified language communities in Paletwa Township, Chin State, Myanmar. While linguistically similar, these communities have not thought of themselves as the same group in living memory. The larger umbrella term for these groups is Eastern Khumi (ISO cek).
The wordlist is a version of the EFEO-CNRS-SOAS Word List for Linguistic Fieldwork in Southeast Asia.
Notes
The data was collected primarily from one speaker, an educated male who was 50 years old at the time it was collected. The data was elicited primarily through the Burmese glosses. I hand wrote transcriptions at the time, and the native speaker wrote the words in their current orthography. Then, once we had completed a few pages, we would stop and record what we had done up to that point. I have since gone back and adjusted some transcriptions as I listened to more of the language, but I am confident that there are still inaccuracies. If you find errors, feel free to email me at joseph.r.bryant@gmail.com. The updated transcriptions are, for the most part, only reflected on the Isolated Words sheet in the Excel file.
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Wordlist Recordings.zip
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References
- Frederic Pain, Michel Ferlus, Alexis Michaud, Thị Thu Hà Phạm, Ryan Gehrmann, et al.. EFEO-CNRS-SOAS Word List for Linguistic Fieldwork in Southeast Asia. 2019. <halshs-01068533v3>