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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Main Author: So-Hartmann, Helga
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179172
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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.