Alan Lomax Parlametrics - Tharu recordings sent from SIL Nepal.

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  Hemanta Chitrakar 4687 天前

  0:58 to1:04, 2:49 to 2:52, and around 9:11 are in Nepali language, not Tharu language.

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  Deepmala Dubey 4684 天前

  Tharu sounds so much like Bhojpuri. If it indeed is a variation/another dialect of Bhojpuri, the total number of people speaking it would be much higher. Check the Wikipedia article, according to which the total number of speakers are more than 38.5 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri_language

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  Sally Acharya 4684 天前

  I've followed this project, and it's so fantastic to see it on Google! A couple comments here on this particular sample. First, I'm unclear why Tharu is being listed under "Bahing" as a Sino-Tibetan language with what appears to be 1-9 surviving speakers. (Maybe a glitch in the system? Tharu was just uploaded incorrectly to Bahing? Or did I misread it?) Also, I played this for a Tharu speaker (a non-native speaker, but a speaker from a young age) whose comment was that it seems to be more of a pidgen of Bhojpuri, Tharu and Nepali. (As was pointed out, the Nepali is clear throughout.) Languages do mix and interchange in practice, but this particular mix isn't the Tharu heard West of Chitwan, at least according to my source. I know it says this is "Chitwan Tharu," and maybe Chitwan Tharu is heavily influenced by all the Bhojpuri speakers in the area; however, Tharu is not equivalent to Bhojpuri. I gather you wouldn't get all the Bhojpuri included in a sample from the west/midwest, which is heavily Tharu. I hope someone uploads some Dang Tharu (or another less Bhojpuri variant) and you get comments from knowledgeable Tharu speakers! Great work having this up for comment, wiki-style.