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Notes on Teizang, A Northern Chin Dialect
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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While studying Tiddim Chin (Kamhau) during a visit to the northern Chin Hills in 1954, I had an opportunity of making a brief investigation of Teizang, a neighbouring dialect closely akin to it. The paucity of first-hand material on the Chin dialects permits me to hope that it may be useful to set down some of my findings, tentative and limited as they are, and to make such comparisons as suggest themselves with the better known Tiddim Chin dialect.
My informant, Mr. Hau Za Lian [
] came from Suangzang village [
] a few miles from Tiddim, on the other side of the Manipur river. The phonetic and grammatical pattern of the language appeared to correspond closely with that of Tiddim Chin, 1 but certain differences were noted.
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- Research Article
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , October 1963 , pp. 551 - 558
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1963
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page 551 note 1 A detailed description of the pronunciation and grammar of Tiddim Chin has been attempted in the author's Two Tiddim Chin texts: a descriptive analysis, OUP, in press. The reader is referred to tbis work for a full account ofthe conventions behind the phonetic transcription used in this article, and of the grammatical terminology employed.
page 552 note 1 See op. cit
page 552 note 2 op. cit.
page 552 note 3 op. cit.
page 552 note 4 i.e. closed by -?, -k, -p, -t. See op. cit.
page 552 note 5 For the one exception recorded for Tiddim, see op. cit.
page 552 note 6 op. cit.
page 553 note 1 See op. cit.
page 553 note 2 See op. cit.
page 553 note 3 See op. cit.
page 555 note 1 op. cit.
page 555 note 2 Contrast Tiddim Chin usage, op. cit.
page 555 note 3 op. cit.
page 556 note 1 op. cit.
page 556 note 2 op. cit.
page 556 note 3 op. cit.
page 556 note 4 op. cit.
page 557 note 1 cf. A. A. Hill, Introduction to linguistic structures.