Open AccessLawngtlang Zophei Swadesh list
Author(s) -
Samson Lotven,
Z. D. Sung,
James Christian Wamsley,
Kelly Berkson
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indiana working papers in south asian languages and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2688-7215
DOI - 10.14434/iwpsalc2019.v1i1.27461
Subject(s) - chin , word list , linguistics , word (group theory) , history , geography , computer science , artificial intelligence , geology , philosophy , paleontology , class (philosophy)
This paper presents a preliminary 100-item Swadesh word list for Lawngtlang Zophei. Zophei or Zyphe (ISO 639-3 ZYP) belongs to the Maraic branch of Kuki-Chin within the Tibeto-Burman language family (Eberhard et. al, 2019). Lawngtlang is a Zophei village in the Southeastern corner of the Zophei-speaking area in Thantlang Township, Chin State, Myanmar. Lawngtlang Zophei is considered to be part of the Lower (western) dialects of Zophei. The word list comes from the intuitions of our co-author Zai Sung, a 22-year-old native speaker born in Lawngtlang and currently living in Indianapolis, Indiana.