Notes on the Southern Chin languages
The purpose of this paper is to make available a number of wordlists representing some of the languages and dialects of Southern Chin. They belong to what Shafer (1966) has called the Southern Kukish subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. Utilizing the Swadesh 100 wordlist (adapted for Southeast Asia) I attempt...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179172 |
Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to make available a number of wordlists representing some of the languages and dialects of Southern Chin. They belong to what Shafer (1966) has called the Southern Kukish subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. Utilizing the Swadesh 100 wordlist (adapted for Southeast Asia) I attempt on the strength of lexical similarities
to show relationships among these languages and dialects I also give
lists of regular phonetic correspondences for consonants and vowels. Tone and/or register was not marked consistently in most of the lists, so I have not attempted to discuss it. |
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