Tai and Tibeto-Burman Languages of Assam
Tai and Tibeto-Burman Languages of Assam

Aiton       Search examples of any language using Tai script.
Phake
Khamyang
Khamti

Turung
Singpho       Search these languages using roman transcription.

Roman transcription for Tai languages       Search using IPA phonetics.
Roman transcription for Tibeto-Burman languages       Search using IPA phonetics.
Gloss       Search word glosses (capitalize grammaticalized morphemes, e.g. GIVE).
Translation       Search the colloquial gloss of the complete sentence.

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Aiton Phake Khamyang Khamti Turung Singpho         Download required fonts
References (pdf format):
    Tai script     Tai romanization     Turung romanization     Grammatical morphemes/glosses
This tool searches data collected by Stephen Morey in Assam from 1996 to present. The data consists of texts in a wide range of genres, in both Tai and Tibeto-Burman languages. The languages represented are Aiton, Khamti, Khamyang and Khamti (Southwestern Tai), and Singpho and Turung (Tibeto-Burman). Several of these languages are seriously endangered, and the total number of speakers of all 6 languages is fewer than 20,000.

    The Tai texts that are searchable on this site are the primary sources for Stephen Morey's Tai languages of Assam - a grammar and texts, 2005. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. In addition to a description of the Tai languages, the grammar is supplemented with a CD version of the linguistic analysis linked to text files, sound files and photographs, as well as about eight hours of transcribed, translated, analysed and annotated text.

    The Turung and Singpho texts on this site are part of the comprehensive documentation of these languages undertaken by Stephen Morey at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology. This research was funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. Stephen Morey is presently supported by Volkswagen Foundation under the DoBeS program to undertake research into Tai, Singpho, and Tangsa languages with a focus on traditional songs.

    All the communities whose languages are presented here have strongly supported Stephen Morey in his effort to document their endangered languages and literatures.

    Stephen Morey can be contacted at moreystephen at hotmail.com.

This website reflects active research and is updated regularly.  When citing data from this site, please be sure to include your date of website access. 
Links to Text Files: See texts.htm
Links to Sound Files:
Original sound files for all texts are being archived at these sites using the standard identifiers that appear in each text (e.g. SDM08-2006-058.wav).
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/paradisec  Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
http://www.hrelp.org/archive  Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)
This site was prepared for Stephen Morey by Doug Cooper, pursuant to a technical assistance grant funded by the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.