Dumi verb index by rime. Appendix to: Internal reconstruction of the Dumi verb: lexical bases and stem formation.: Tibeto-Burman linguistics, Kiranti linguistics, Dumi, Internal reconstruction, Nepal languages, Kiranti languages

This appendix to Michailovsky 2012 presents the root forms of the verbs of Dumi (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal; ISO 639-3: dus) reconstructed according to the principles proposed in the article. The roots are ordered according to reconstructed rime (final, vowel) and transitivity. Michailovsky, Boyd. 2012. Internal reconstruction of the Dumi verb: lexical bases and stem formation. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 35(2). 39p

A simple architecture for the fine-grained documentation of endangered languages: the LACITO multimedia archive

A paraître dans : Proceedings of Oriental-COCOSDA 2011. Présenté à : 2011 International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments (Oriental COCOSDA 2011), 2011-10-26 -> 2011-10-28, TaiwanInternational audienceThe LACITO multimedia archive provides free access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech, mostly in "rare" or endangered languages, recorded in their cultural context and transcribed in consultation with native speakers. Its goal is to contribute to the documentation and study of a precious human heritage: the world's languages. It has a special strength in languages of Asia and the Pacific. The LACITO archive was built with little personnel and less funding. It has been devised, developed and maintained over two decades by two researchers assisted by one engineer. Its simple architecture is based on current standards: Unicode character coding and XML markup; and Dublin Core/Open Language Archives Community recommendations for metadata. The data can be consulted online with any standard browser. The technical simplicity of the tools developed at LACITO makes them suitable for the creation of similar databases at other institutions. (For instance, tools from this archive were successfully adapted in the creation of the Formosan Languages archive.

Documenting and Researching Endangered Languages: The Pangloss Collection

The Pangloss Collection is a language archive developed since 1994 at the Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LACITO) research group of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It contributes to the documentation and study of the world’s languages by providing free access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech, mostly in endangered or under-resourced languages, recorded in their cultural context and transcribed in consultation with native speakers. The Collection is an Open Archive containing media files (recordings), text annotations, and metadata; it currently contains over 1,400 recordings in 70 languages, including more than 400 transcribed and annotated documents. The annotations consist of transcription, free translation in English, French and/or other languages, and, in many cases, word or morpheme glosses; they are time-aligned with the recordings, usually at the utterance level. A web interface makes these annotations accessible online in an interlinear display format, in synchrony with the sound, using any standard browser. The structure of the XML documents makes them accessible to searching and indexing, always preserving the links to the recordings. Long-term preservation is guaranteed through a partnership with a digital archive. A guiding principle of the Pangloss Collection is that a close association between documentation and research is highly profitable to both. This article presents the collections currently available; it also aims to convey a sense of the range of possibilities they offer to the scientific and speaker communities and to the general public.National Foreign Language Resource Cente

Structure syllabique et variation combinatoire : voisement et gemination en limbu

In the phonology and morphophonology of Limibu (Tibeto- Burman, Nepal), we find what could be considered as rules of voicing (of stops) and gemination (of stops and nasals). The interpretation of these phenomena leads us to assign an independent role to the syllable boundary as part of the phonological environment conditioning the distribution of allophones.Michailovsky Boyd. Structure syllabique et variation combinatoire : voisement et gemination en limbu . In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 15 2, 1986. pp. 193-204

Photographie de B. Michailovsky | Enquêtes linguistiques en Asie | Harka Jit Pangbohang Libang (« Motta ») (dr.) et Narad Bahadur Phembasong (g.)

Cette photographie a été prise par le chercheur linguiste Boyd Michailovsky, durant la période de 1977, dans le cadre d'une enquête linguistique de terrain pour documenter le limbu.Les personnes apparaissant sur les clichés ont accepté d'être photographiées dans le cadre d'une enquête de terrain. Elles ont le droit de demander le retrait d'une image en nous contactant.Cliché pris par Boyd Michailovsky au cours d’enquêtes linguistiques en république démocratique fédérale du Népal.Photographie d'Harka Jit Pangbohang Libang (« Motta ») (dr.) et Narad Bahadur Phembasong (g.), dont les récits de la vie limbu sont archivés dans la Collection Pangloss (https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Limbu?lang=en&mode=pro)