Chintang

Chintang belongs to the Kiranti branch of Tibeto-Burman. It is spoken in the Dhankuta province of Eastern Nepal by about 6000 people. The Chintang Language Corpus (CLC), which features a large language acquisition subcorpus, is an in-house resource: it is maintained and developed at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Zurich within the frame of the Chintang Language Research Programme (CLRP). The CLRP principal investigators are Balthasar Bickel, Sabine Stoll, and Elena Lieven.