Tai and Tibeto-Burman Languages of Assam

Tai and Tibeto-Burman Languages of Assam Tai and Tibeto-Burman Languages of Assam
A searchable corpus of texts collected and analysed by Stephen Morey and associates.
Project funding by DoBeS / Volkswagen Stiftung.

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Aiton Search text examples of any language using Tai script.
Phake
Khamyang
Khamti
Ahom

Singpho Search text examples using roman orthography.
Turung
Tangsa (Cholim)
Tangsa (Chamchang)
Tangsa (Lochhang)
Tangsa (Ngaimong)

Roman transcription for Tai languages (except Ahom) Search using IPA phonetics.
Roman transcription for Ahom
Roman transcription for Tibeto-Burman languages

Gloss Search word glosses (capitalize grammaticalized morphemes, e.g. GIVE).
Translation Search the colloquial gloss of the complete sentence.

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Ahom Aiton Phake Khamyang Khamti Singpho Turung Tangsa (Cholim) Tangsa (Chamchang) Tangsa (Lochhang) Tangsa (Ngaimong)
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Tai script Tai romanization Turung romanization Grammatical morphemes/glosses
This tool searches data collected by Stephen Morey and associates in Assam from 1996 to present. The data consists of texts in a wide range of genres, in both Tai and Tibeto-Burman languages. The languages represented are Ahom, Aiton, Khamti, Khamyang and Khamti (Southwestern Tai), and Singpho, Turung and Tangsa (Cholim, Chamchang, Lochhang, and Ngaimong varieties) (Tibeto-Burman). Several of these languages are seriously endangered, and the total number of speakers of all 8 languages is fewer than 30,000.
Full transcriptions, translations and analyses of the texts can be downloaded as Word documents. At present this site uses non-Unicode fonts that can be downloaded here.
The Tai texts that are searchable on this site are the primary sources for Stephen Morey's Tai languages of Assam - a grammar and texts, 2005. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. In addition to a description of the Tai languages, the grammar is supplemented with a CD version of the linguistic analysis linked to text files, sound files and photographs, as well as about eight hours of transcribed, translated, analysed and annotated text.
The Tai Ahom texts form the basis of the Tai Ahom Dictionary, and of a draft grammar of Tai Ahom being submitted for publication by Stephen Morey.
The Turung and Singpho texts on this site are part of the comprehensive documentation of these languages undertaken by Stephen Morey at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. This research was funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. Stephen Morey's Turung - a variety of Singpho spoken in Assam is to be published by Pacific Linguistics, Canberra. It will be supplemented by a DVD version of the linguistic analysis linked to text files, sound files and photographs, and more than twelve hours of transcribed, translated, analysed and annotated text.
Stephen Morey is presently supported by Volkswagen Foundation under the DoBeS program to undertake research into Tai, Singpho, and Tangsa languages with a focus on traditional songs (http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/singpho_tai_tangsa). This work is assisted by Palash Kumar Nath, Jurgen Schopf, Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai Zeenat Tabassum, Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, Karabi Mazumder and Krishna Boro.
All the communities whose languages are presented here have strongly supported Stephen Morey in his effort to document their endangered languages and literatures.
Stephen Morey can be contacted at moreystephen at hotmail.com.
This website reflects active research and is updated regularly. When citing data from this site, please be sure to include your date of website access.
Links to Text Files: See texts.htm
Links to Sound Files:
Original sound files for all texts are being archived at these sites using the standard identifiers that appear in each text (e.g. SDM08-2006-058.wav). http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/paradisec Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
http://www.hrelp.org/archive Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)
DoBeS Archive, Max Planck Institute
This website reflects active research and is updated regularly. When citing data from this site, please be sure to include your date of website access.

This site was prepared for Stephen Morey by Doug Cooper, pursuant to a technical assistance grant funded by the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, a US 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.