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Language: Ai-Cham (Diwo)

Source/Author:  Lin Shi & Cui Jianxin 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:aih  Glottocode: aich1238 
Notes:  ISO 639-3: aih This dialect of Ai-Cham (ʔai3 ȶam1) is from Gengfang Hamlet (ʔəu1 vu:ŋ1), Diwo Township, Jialiang District, Libo County, Qiannan Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China. The Diwo dialect is more representative of Ai-Cham than the other varieties are.

Source: Lin, Shi and Cui Jianxin. 1988. "An investigation of the Ai-Cham language." In Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit (eds.), Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai, 59-85. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics, 86. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Diwo Ai-Cham has 8 tones:
1 = /22/
2 = /31/
3 = /33/
4 = /53/
5 = /35/
6 = /13/
7 = /55/
7B = /24/
8 = /31/
 
Problems:  Limited lexicon 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Andrew C. Hsiu  Checked By:  
Statistics: 
  • Total Data: 104
  • Number of Retentions:
  • Number of Loans: 4
 
Classification:  Tai-Kadai:Kam-Tai:Kam-Sui 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
2 left      
3 right      
8 to turn word info      
11 dust      
12 skin      
13 back word info      
14 belly      
16 intestines      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
24 head      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
31 tooth      
33 to laugh      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink      
42 to suck      
43 ear      
44 to hear      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
56 child      
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother      
60 father      
62 thatch/roof      
64 to say      
66 to tie up, fasten      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
79 stick/wood      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
96 dog      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh      
106 snake      
110 spider      
115 root      
117 fruit      
118 grass      
119 earth/soil      
121 sand      
123 to flow      
124 sea      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
130 star      
131 cloud word info      
135 lightning      
142 heavy      
143 fire      
145 smoke word info      
149 red      
152 small      
153 big      
155 long word info      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new      
164 good      
165 bad, evil      
167 night      
168 day      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
187 they      
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
197 One word info      
199 Three word info      
200 Four word info      
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
203 Seven word info      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
54 man/male ba:n1      
156 thin word info ba:ŋ1      
55 woman/female bi:k7B      
45 eye da1   1  
63 name da:n1   1  
81 sharp da:u3      
154 short word info dam5      
185 we word info di1   9  
65 rope di:k7B thread    
154 short word info din6      
35 to vomit du:k7B   1  
19 shoulder ha1      
116 flower hwa1 Chinese   L
198 Two word info ja1      
61 house ja:n1      
151 green j̥əu1      
4 leg/foot ka1 leg 42  
15 bone ka:ŋ3 fish bone    
6 road/path khun1      
25 neck ku4      
9 to swim lui1   1  
136 wind ləm1   63  
176 below l̥a3      
22 to fear l̥jəu1      
81 sharp l̥ui1      
81 sharp l̥weŋ5      
32 tongue ma2   1  
184 he/she man1      
72 to hit word info map8      
104 fat/grease maŋ6      
1 hand mi1   1  
141 wet min2 moist    
132 fog mok7   53  
195 no, not məi6 not yet    
111 fish məm6      
128 sky mən1      
7 to come m̥a1      
157 thick word info na1   47  
177 this na:i6   1  
83 to work word info na:m1 working hard    
147 black nam1   1  
122 water word info nam3   1  
129 moon ni:n2      
49 to lie down word info niŋ3   56  
158 narrow njap7      
97 bird nok8   1  
156 thin word info nun6      
147 black nwa:i3      
112 rotten word info nwat7      
48 to sleep nən2      
5 to walk pa:i1      
30 mouth pa:k7      
204 Eight word info pa:t7 Chinese   L
88 to squeeze word info pan3      
4 leg/foot pau1 foot 43  
209 One Hundred word info pek7 Chinese   L
70 to shoot word info peŋ5      
23 blood phja:t7      
78 to cut, hack word info phu:t7      
172 to climb word info pin1      
134 thunder pja3      
26 hair word info pjam1      
138 warm word info pjom6      
137 to blow word info po5      
148 white pu:k8      
80 to split word info pɯk7      
186 you si1   1  
55 woman/female si3 ja4      
37 to eat si:n1      
75 to die, be dead tai1   1  
17 liver tap7   37  
140 dry word info ti:m4 to dry a mat    
67 to sew word info tip7      
166 correct, true toi5 Chinese   L
95 to fall word info tok7   76  
120 stone tui2      
144 to burn word info tun1      
108 louse word info təu1   1  
114 leaf va5      
133 rain vin1      
146 ash vok7B      
82 dull, blunt wa3      
10 dirty wa5      
94 to throw word info wit8      
185 we word info wə1      
107 worm (earthworm) zjan4      
105 tail zwət7B      
183 thou ŋ2      
113 branch word info ŋa6      
150 yellow ŋ̊a:n3      
196 to count ȡai5      
53 person/human being ȡin1      
9 to swim ȡui1      
34 to cry ȵe3      
139 cold word info ȵit7      
109 mosquito ȵuŋ4   58  
78 to cut, hack word info ȵ̊ak7B      
41 to bite ȶam3      
171 to hide word info ȶha3      
73 to steal ȶip7 to rob    
160 painful, sick ȶit7      
18 breast ɕu4   1?  
93 to pound, beat word info ɕuk7 PMP *tuktuk?    
182 I ʔe2      

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