Pnar
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- Ring collection
- This dataset consists of linguistic data (recordings and transcriptions/translations) gathered on the Pnar language by Dr. Hiram Ring. Pnar (ISO 639-3: pbv) is a language spoken in Meghalaya state of northeast India by around 400,000 people. The recordings and transcriptions in this dataset were carried out in and around Jowai between June 2011 and July 2013. There are two files that describe the contents of this dataset in more detail: README_Dataset.txt and README_Toolbox.txt - these should be consulted for instructions on how to access the data, once downloaded. The Dictionary.txt and Texts.txt files contain lexical data and interlinearized transcriptions/translations respectively., Related publication: Ring, H. (2015). A grammar of Pnar. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62519, Dataset language: English and Pnar Time Period Covered Start: 2011-06 ; End: 2013-07 Kind of Data Recordings, transcriptions and translations. Software Toolbox, Version: 1.6.2 (July 2015) Data Sources Speakers of the Pnar language in Meghalaya, India. Documentation and Access to Sources Permissions from all speakers were obtained for the use of these recordings for linguistic use. Permission was also requested for publication and attribution of the names of the sources. Participants who did not give express permission for public attribution have been anonymized in this version of the dataset.