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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/677fc99c-bba3-41cc-a6a0-858b27edf204

Title: A story about a wolf and a sheep / 狼和羊的故事

Description: This is a conversation between two people in a Cai family, narrated by Mr. Li Kaiping and Li Tao. Mr. Li Kaiping told a local story to Li Tao. The story goes like this.One day, a sheep heard a sound outside and ran over to look. It saw a wolf, and the wolf fell into a hole. The wolf told the sheep that he could not jump out the hole, and wanted the sheep to stretch one leg in and pull him out. The sheep thought for a moment and pulled the wolf out. When the wolf came out, he said that he was hungry and did not have the strength to walk.The wolf asked the sheep to find him something to eat, otherwise it would eat the sheep. In the end, although the sheep found food for the wolf, the wolf still ate the sheep. / 这是一段关于蔡家话的两人对话,讲述者是李开平先生跟李涛。李开平先生讲了一个本地的故事给李涛听.故事是这样的，有一天，一只羊在外面听到了声音，跑过去一看，看到一只狼，狼掉进了洞里。狼跟羊说，他掉进去出不来了，想让羊伸一条腿进去拉他出来。羊想了想，就拉他出来了。狼出来后说他饿了，没有力气走路，狼让羊给他找点吃的，不然就把羊吃掉。最后虽然羊替狼找到了食物，狼还是把羊吃了。

Date created: 2021-08-20

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: China

Region: Guizhou Province

Address: Dajie Village in Weining County / 威宁县大街乡

Project

ID: MDP0392

Name: 0548-MDP0392

Description: Caijia is an under-described and critically endangered language spoken by less than 1,000 people in the northwest of Guizhou province in southwestern people's republic of China, mainly in Hezhang and Weining counties of Bijie prefecture, as well as in Liupanshui, the neighboring prefecture of Bijie. As for the genetic affiliation, Caijia remains unclassified or controversial. On the basis of lexical evidence, some scholars in China proposes that Caijia is related to Bai, the affiliation of which is also controversial. Some other scholars consider Caijia as a Chinese dialect with impact from ethnic languages at older layer, while some others consider it as a Tibeto-Burman language. However, the word order of Caijia is SVO, while Tibeto-Burman languages are usually SOV order. Caijia is very close in many features of its features to Sinitic Languages. On the basis of Swadesh expanded list, 54% of them show directly phonetic connection with Chinese. According to the local scholar's research, 34.75% of 800 common words are phonetically related to the Hezhang dialect of Southwestern Mandarin. However, in the remaining 65.25%, which are different from Hezhang Southwestern Mandarin, there are still words which can be traced back to Middle or Old Chinese. By contrast there are only 10.63% of the words are related to the local Yi dialect which belongs to Tibeto-Burman family. Caijia is a language of SVO order, but the order in constituents in NP shows certain degree of turbulence. Demonstrative, adjective and relative precede the head noun, while numeral and classifier follow the head noun.

Topics

Topic: Wolf story / 狼的故事

Keywords

Keyword: Wolf story / 狼的故事

Content

Genre: Folktale

Languages

Language

Name: Caijia

Description: Subject Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Fu Kang

Role: researcher

Actor

Full Name: Sun Shun

Role: researcher

Actor

Full Name: Li Kaiping

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Li Tao

Role: participant

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Filename: Caijia301_Caijia301.WAV

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/ee8006b8-14a4-4f56-b325-1b588cf86fae

File type: Audio

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