Lamkang forms a separate branch Clusters homorganic assimilation Sonorants retention Obstruents merger PTB ssy gt PSCTB th Verb stem alternation NSFfunded project to create a lexical database of Lamkang ID: 814826
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Goal
Lamkang belongs to the Central Chin subgroup of SCTBLamkang forms a separate branch
Clusters: homorganic assimilationSonorants: retentionObstruents: merger
PTB *s-/*sy- > PSCTB *th-Verb stem alternation
NSF-funded project to create a lexical database of Lamkang (#1160640)Development of orthography in progressWord lists based on published materials and discussions with speakers
Find which subgroup of South-Central Tibeto-Burman (SCTB) Lamkang belongs to using the comparative method
Reanalyzing South-Central Tibeto-Burman’s Internal Structure: Evidence from LamkangMary Burke | University of North Texas | Mary.Burke@unt.edu
About the Lamkang Project
Evidence for SCTB
Sound Correspondences
homorganic assimilationretention of PSCTB *y-merger of PTB *s-/*t- > Lamkang d-
VanBik, K. (2009). Proto-Kuki-Chin: a reconstructed ancestor of the Kuki-Chin languages. Berkeley, CA: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project, Dept. of Linguistics research unit in Univ. of California, Berkeley.Peterson, D. A. (2017). On Kuki-Chin Subgrouping. In Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia (pp. 189-209). BRILL.
Findings
investigate Lamkang final consonantsre-assess VanBik’s SCTB subgroupingaccess data from other SCTB languages
Conclusions
Future Research
About Lamkang
Selected Resources
Previous SCTB Subgroupings
PTB
*pl-
*p
w-*pr-*bl-*br-*dz-*gl-*kl-*kr-PSCTB--*w-----*r-*ɗ-*hl-*khl-*k(h)r-PCC--------------*thl-*t(h)r-LMK--v-----pr-ʈ-l-t(h)l-ʈ(h)-
PTB*p-*b-*t-*d-*s-*z-*k-*g-*h-PSCTB*p-*ɓ-*t---*th-*θ-*kh-*k-*h-LMKp-b-d---d-ts-kh-k-h-
PTB*m-*w-*n-*l-*r-*y-*ŋ-PSCTB*m-*w-*n-*l-*r-*y-*ŋ-LMKm-v-n-l-r-y-ŋ-
Evidence for Central Chin
Homorganic assimilationPSCTB *khl- > PCC *thl-PSCTB *k(h)r- > PCC *t(h)r-PSCTB *y- > PCC *z-
Tibeto-Burman
South-Central Tibeto-Burman
under 10,000 speakersSOVagglutinative
Hypothesis
: Lamkang belongs to the Central Chin subgroup of SCTB
Center-Periphery (VanBik, 2009)
Geography-Based (Linguistic Survey of India)