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Recordings and transcripts
A number of audio recordings collected in 2020 in Myanmar are presently being transcribed, translated, and annotated with interlinear glosses and syntactic information. The material can be made available upon request (restrictions for personality and data protection apply). Please direct your requests to info@htanawsar.org.
Available recordings with transcripts:
Frog where are you? Narrated by KTT (m,18y), from Taung Poe Hla, Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar. Based on the 1969 picture book by Mercer Mayer. (3:36 min)
The chicken thief. Narrated by KTT (m, 18y), from Taung Poe Hla, Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar. Based on the 2009 picture book by Béatrice Rodriguez. (4:29 min)
Personal conversation about village life. KTT (m, 18y) and ZWH (m, 21y), from Taung Poe Hla, Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar. The two young men talk about their life in Taung Poe Hla, including everyday topics like household chores of married and unmarried men, as well as festivals taking place at different times of the year. (20:05 min)
Full list of recordings at SWISSUbase:
Mathias Jenny, Sandra Vanessa Herdeg: Htanaw alphabetization and documentation [Dataset]. Universität Zürich, Chiang Mai University. Distributed by SWISSUbase, Lausanne, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.48656/vxhj-mn25
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် 2020 ခုနှစ်အတွင်း စုဆောင်းရရှိထားသော အသံဖမ်းယူမှုများသည် လက်ရှိတွင် ကူးယူဖော်ပြခြင်း၊ ဘာသာပြန်ခြင်းနှင့် အမှတ်အသားပြုခြင်းများကို မျဉ်းသားထားသော အရောင်တောက်တောက်များနှင့် ပေါင်းစပ်ထားသော အချက်အလက်များဖြင့် မှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားပါတယ်။ (ကိုယ်ရည်ကိုယ်သွေးနှင့် ဒေတာကာကွယ်ရေးအတွက် ကန့်သတ်ချက်များ ရှိပါတယ် )။ ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ သင်၏တောင်းဆိုမှုများကို info@htanawsar.org.သို့ ညွှန်ကြားပေးရန် ။
Literature on Htanaw
Jenny, Mathias, Han Tin, Rachel Weymnuth, and Alexandra Herdeg (2024). Optionality and paradigmaticity - the Htanaw verb between isolation and agglutination. CLAO. Morphosyntactic description of the verb phrase of Htanaw based on the authors analysis of own and published data.
Zaw Lwin Oo (Hinthada). 2021. Htanaw. Yangon: Sapay Beikman. [ဇော်လွင်ဦး (ဟင်္သာတ) ၂၀၂၁။ ထနော့။ ရန်ကုန် - စာပေဗိမာန်] - The first comprehensive publication on all aspects of Htanaw culture, written in Burmese. Includes word lists with Htanaw expressions in Burmese orthography, many b/w pictures, and information on the history and everyday culture of the Htanaw people.
Shintani, Tadahiko L. A. 2020. The Kanaw (Danaw) language. Linguistic Survey of Tay Cultural Area (LSTCA) no. 127. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). - a comprehensive (but incomplete) word list of Htanaw with Burmese, English, and Shan glosses including a brief overview of the phonology and some sentence structures. No sources of the data are indicated, many words appear to be markedly different from the Taung Poe Hla variety.
Si, Aung. 2015. Danau. In: The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages. Mathias Jenny & Paul Sidwell (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 1104-1141. - The first grammar sketch of Htanaw to be published in English in modern linguistic terminology. Phonology and syntax not fully worked out, but a very useful basis for further studies.
Nu Nu Thein. 2005. Study of the Htanaw language. [ထနော့စကားလေ့လာချက်]. PhD Dissertation at Yangon University. Yangon, Myanmar. - Extensive coverage of the phonology with many examples, but not consistently worked out. Some examples of sentence structures and good word lists. Written in Burmese and not officially published.
Luce, Gordon. 1965. Danaw, a dying Austroasiatic language. Lingua 14: 98–129. - Article giving an overview of Htanaw, focused on the phonology, and putting it in relation with other Palaungic languages. The sources of the data are indicated, making this a very useful basis for comparison with more recent spoken varieties.
Grierson, George A. 1928. Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. I, part II, 3-337. - Lists a few Htanaw expressions and words, rather impressionistic transcript and no information about the exact sources of the data.
Language documentation
ELDP documentation project by Aung Si (2008-2012): A preliminary documentation of Danau, an endangered language of Myanmar (Burma).
Online dictionary (work in progress): https://livingdictionaries.app/htanaw/entries/list
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