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Buyi (Aboji) audio word list

On April 13, 2013, I visited the ethnic "Shui" village of Upper Abaiji (locally called Aboji) 上阿白吉村 in Luoping County, Yunnan, China. The village was very remote, and was accessible only via a narrow footpath that was one hour's walk from the nearest paved road. I had to walk one hour there, with a local guide leading me on the path up to Aboji village. My informant was a 66-year-old man named Wang Qibing 王齐兵. Wang reported that his language, which I have determined to be a Buyi dialect, was mutually intelligible with Shui of Luo’e, Fuyuan County. Locals Han Chinese and even the Shui themselves also refer to the Shui as “Buyi.” Wang also reported that there are ethnic Yi in Fanai 发耐, Xinzhai 新寨, Xinfacun 新发村.

Hezhang Buyi (Tiejiang) audio word list

Hezhang Buyi is a highly endangered mixed Kra-Dai language with a Northern Tai (Buyi) superstratum and Kra substratum. On April 8, 2013, I interviewed Yang Zhenmei 杨珍妹 (born July 15, 1928), who was the mother of a local village official in Tiejiang village 铁匠村, Tiejiang township 铁匠乡, Hezhang County 赫章县, Guizhou, China. In Dazhai 大寨, Fuchu township 辅处乡, Hezhang County 赫章县, Guizhou, China, my informant was Gao Chunjie 高春姐 (female, illiterate; born May 5, 1928 in Yuguo village 雨果村, Weining county). She was the best native speaker of “Shui” in the village. There were also “few” other elderly fluent speakers in the village. Gao's middle-aged male relative said their ancestors had migrated from from Dashiban, Taihe County, Fuguang Prefecture, Jiangxi 江西福广府太河县大石板. He also reported other locations of Shui in Hezhang County as Zhuyuan, Kele Township 可乐乡竹园 (and one other village) and Tangbian, Zhuming Township 朱明乡塘边.

Buyi (Jichang) audio word list

On April 6, 2013, I interviewed He Weifu (born October 1939 in Dawan village 大湾村), a Buyi speaker who was born in and has lived all his life in Dawan, Jichang Township 鸡场苗族彝族布依族乡, Zhijin County, Guizhou, China. He says that ethnic Buyi clothing is now rarely worn in Dawan, and that the younger generations speak Buyi with Chinese accents or not at all. However, the older generations are completely fluent in Buyi, and He was proud of the fact that Dawan is one of the few villages in the township where Buyi is still widely spoken, at least by the elderly generation. The Buyi of Dawan had been officially classified as Shui until the 1980’s, when they were reclassified as Buyi. The neighboring villages just downhill still say that the residents of Dawan are ethnic “Shui” (水族), although the Dawan residents now say they are ethnic “Buyi” (布依族).   There were also ethnic White Miao in Wupu 乌普, which some residents in neighboring villages confuse as ethnic “Bai” (白族). No actual ethnic Bai have been found in Jichang Township 鸡场乡.

Red Gelao (Houzitian) audio word list

On August 1, 2012, I found the last living speaker of Houzitian Red Gelao, an 88-year-old woman named Guo Yunxiu 郭云秀. She was living in Luomadong 罗马洞 (18 组), Qinglong village 青龙村, Langdai township 郎岱镇, Liuzhi Special District, Guizhou, China after she married a man from that village, but she was born in Houzitian 猴子田, Liuzhi Special District, Guizhou. Her son drove me in his minivan, and also invited me to a meal of dog meat soup. Guo reported that she had not conversed in Red Gelao with other Red Gelao speakers for about 20 years.

White Gelao (Judu) audio word list

Su Xingming 苏兴明, an elementary school teacher in Judu village, was my informant. I elicited more than 500 vocabulary words on July 31, 2012. Unfortunately, the static noise from the Minghai H15 unidirectional microphone was quite frustrating to me. I was always making sure my informant spoke loud and close enough to the microphone as to speak significantly louder than the static. However, I still successfully collected excellent data, as Su Xingming was a highly cooperative and literate informant who had worked with field linguists before. He had personally known Li Jinfang and his graduates students Kang Zhongde and Li Xia. Unlike all of the other ethnic Gelao villages I had been to, in Judu, the Gelao language was actually used far more in daily conversation than Chinese. Even the village officials often spoke White Gelao to each other. They took me to the Judu elementary school, where I was to work with my informant, have my meals, and stay for the night. I then played Jerold Edmondson’s recordings of northern Vietnam’s White Gelao to them, and then said that much of it was intelligible, except for some variations in tone and lexicon. Location: Judu village 居都村, Qingkou township 箐口乡, Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui, Guizhou, China

Gelao (Hongfeng) audio word list

My Red Gelao informant in Hongfeng village was Wang Lunguang 王伦光 (65), communicates with his wife entirely in Gelao, but speaks to most of the family in Southwestern Mandarin (or Guizhouhua). He is multilingual in Red Gelao, Southwestern Mandarin, and some Miao. Recorded on July 25, 2012 in Hongfeng village, Pudi Township, Dafang County, Guizhou, China.

Qabiao (Tiechang) audio word list

On August 26, 2012, I interviewed Yang Guangyou 杨光佑 (71, female) in Xinminzhai 新民寨, Dongdu Village 董渡村, Tiechang Township 铁厂乡, Malipo County, Yunnan, China. Xinminzhai 新民寨 is adjacent to Pufeng 普峰, where more ethnic Qabiao reside. Yang had been an informant for Li Jinfang, and said that Li and his team had worked with her for about 2 weeks. Yang Guangyou was born in Pula 普腊 / Pho La, Ha Giang province, Vietnam, but moved to China when she married a Qabiao speaker in China, who had already passed away. I also interviewed a Qabiao semi-speaker, Gong Youlian 贡友联 (74, female) in the Tiechang Township center. Qabiao people are also reported living in Makun 玛昆 , Donggan Town 董干镇.

Yi (Kunzhai) audio word list

On April 3, 2013, I interviewed Wang Dechang 王得昌 (male; date of birth: December 3, 1952) of Gusu village 古苏村, Kunzhai Township 昆寨乡, Nayong County, Guizhou, China who spoke a Loloish language called Nusuphu (autonym: [nɯ55 su21 phu33]). All Yi people in the township were "Nusuphu." He has also heard of the Caijia, but reports that there are now completely Sinicized, with no ethnic language or customs remaining.

Qabiao (Pufeng) audio word list

Caijia (Niujiaojing) audio word list

My Caijia informant in Niujiaojing 牛角井, Yangjie Town, Weining County, Guizhou, China was an illiterate elderly woman named Wang Jinzhi 王金之 (born 1940), whom I interviewed on April 7, 2013. Caijia locations reported by residents of Niujiaojing are Niujiaojing 牛角井村, Xinglongchang 兴隆场村, Niuchishui 牛吃水 (reportedly with very fluent Caijia speakers), and Fadi 发地. Like the Caijia of Puding County, the Caijia of Weining County (or at least Niujiaojing) are officially classified as ethnic Gelao. However, the Caijia (locally Caizu) there told me that they do not like that classification at all, and are a completely distinct ethnic group that should be officially recognized. These are all previously unknown locations of Caijia. On April 1, 2013, one of the Puding County government officials also said that there are ethnic Caijia in 贵州织金县猫场乡新国村 (Xinguo, Maochang Township, Zhijin County), but they do not know whether Caijia is still spoken there. There are also Caijia in Puding County, but they no longer speak the language, and are classified as ethnic Gelao. This is because their customs were similar to that of the neighboring Gelao. However, none of the government officials had any idea where ethnic Caijia are located within Puding County.

Red Gelao (Tianba) audio word list

In 1997, a divergent Red Gelao variety known as va³⁵ntɯ³¹ was discovered by Jerold Edmondson in Na Khê, Yên Minh District, Hà Giang Province, Vietnam. Edmondson reported that Red Gelao was still being acquired by children in the village, which exchanged brides with the other Red Gelao-speaking village of Bìch Đich (also known as Bạch Đích) in order to maintain Red Gelao culture. Even though Edmondson reported that in Vietnam, Red Gelao is spoken only in the two villages of Na Khê and Bìch Đich, my informants just across the border in Malipo County suggest that there could be more Red Gelao speakers living in the neighboring village of Mậu Long. On August 25, 2012, I found a rememberer of Red Gelao named Wang Qiongying 王琼英, a 47-year-old woman, in Tianba 田坝, Dongdu village 董渡村, Tiechang township 铁厂乡, Malipo County 麻栗坡县, Yunnan, China. Wang Qiongying was born in Hà Giang province, Vietnam, but moved to Tianba after marrying Yang Changxing 杨昌兴, an ethnic White Gelao who does not speak any Gelao. Wang gave her Red Gelao autonym as ua³⁵ntei³¹. As of 2012, Wang speaks only Southwestern Mandarin fluently, and could produce some words, phrases, and basic sentences in her native Red Gelao variety. Despite being born in Vietnam, she does not speak any Vietnamese. Wang has not conversed in Red Gelao with anyone since her move to China about 30 years ago, and does not remember many basic vocabulary items such as the colors (e.g., ‘black’, ‘white’). Wang moved to China at the age of 17 when she married Yang Changxin 杨昌兴 in Tianba 田坝. She is a rememberer of Red Gelao, and cannot say complete sentences in it. Wang has not conversed fluently in Red Gelao since she had moved to China. Neither Wang nor her husband was able to recognize the names of Na Khê and Bìch Đich. However, her husband Yang Changxing said that Wang was born in a location in Hà Giang province called “Moudan 某丹”, which I believe is most likely the village of Mậu Long, located just to the north of Na Khê in Yên Minh District, Vietnam. A visit to Mậu Long would be needed to determine if there are still any remaining Red Gelao speakers of the ua³⁵ntei³¹ variety. Unfortunately, there is no other Red Gelao speaker or rememberer in Tianba, even though Li Jinfang’s informant Yang Yucai 杨玉才 had reported that his mother was a Red Gelao from Tianba, of the autonym u³³wei⁵⁵ . Even though there were several Red Gelao households in Tianba, none of the local Red Gelao people recognized the autonym u³³wei⁵⁵. Tianba also has a few elderly fluent White Gelao speakers of the autonym te³⁵lɯ³¹ , including 78-year-old Yang Guangsheng 杨光升. Yang reported that his brother Yang Guangqing 杨光睛, residing in Fanpo 翻坡, Yangwan township 杨万乡, also speaks White Gelao fluently. Yang Guangsheng also informed me that there were more White Gelao speakers in the nearby village of Fengyan 峰岩, including Yang Guangfu 杨光甫. In the meantime, her husband and another White Gelao man were arguing about a Gelao bride who was going to be migrating to China, highlighting the tense issues that may result from cross-border migrations in the region.

Luoji audio word list

The luo31 dʑi33 are located in Shejie 蛇街村, Yangjie Town 羊街镇, Weining County, Guizhou, China. The neighboring ethnic groups call them the “Qixingmin” (七姓民), while they also call themselves the “Baizi” 白子 in Chinese, and luo31 dʑi33 in their own language (non-Chinese). The locals say they are officially classified as ethnic Bai. Another group officially classified as ethnic Bai are the “Caizu” (蔡族), who are a completely distinct group from the Qixingmin. Both have different languages and customs. My minivan driver did not know about the Caizu until today. Also, Yangjie separated from Tiejiang Township 铁匠乡 by “only a bridge,” according to my driver (who has worked in “mountain carving mines” in Jiangxi and Zhejiang). Intriguingly, he reported that there are also ethnic Shui in the area. On April 7, 2013, I interviewed an elderly man named Zhang Dexu 张得旭 (born December 15, 1938). Zhang claimed that the ancestors of the Qixingmin had come from Dali, and that their ancestors had spoken a “Bai language” (白话 or 白族话) completely different from the “Yi” (彝话) that their grandparents had spoken. He claimed that this “Bai language” had gone extinct hundreds of years ago, and guessed that it could have been back in the Song Dynasty. He reports that there are also Qixingmin speakers in Jinzhong Township 金钟镇 and Dajie Township 大街乡, and Caijia speakers in Kele Township 可乐乡, Hezhang County and Dajie Township 大街乡, Weining County.

Hezhang Buyi (Dazhai) audio word list

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Elsevier OA Price List (06-Jan-2018)

This deposit includes the PDF obtained from https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/j.custom97.pdf and a converted XLS version. Converted with pdftables.com by Ross Mounce

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Supplementary Info_Siang Bird List_23APR2024

Dataset as 'Supplementary information' for the survey entitled, 'Ornithological results of the Siang Biodiversity Expedition 2022, Arunachal Pradesh, India'.  In this study, we documented the avifauna of the Siang Valley from February to May 2022, and present an annotated checklist of birds reported in the region during this period [Table A]. To quantify our records, we focussed on systematically arranging our data with respect to elevation distribution. We also report species that were sound-recorded during the study. We also documented any encounters of dead and hunted bird specimens during the course of our study [Table B]. In addition to direct sightings, we document bird data obtained on camera-traps as incidental captures during mammal surveys of the study [Table C].

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Interferogram List Files

Interferograms files created for use in displacement analysis for deep-seated landslide over El Forn.  Dates used listed in the title of each file name.

299 in Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation

299. Potomotyphlus kaupii. Caroni river, Bolívar. Photo: Fernando Rojas-Runjaic.

289 in Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation

289. Bolitoglossa cf. altamazonica. Doradas river valley. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.

286 in Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation

286. Pristimantis sp. 2. Sub páramo La Motus, Mérida. Photo: César Barrio-Amorós.

284 in Catalogue of the amphibians of Venezuela: Illustrated and annotated species list, distribution, and conservation

284. Pristimantis zeuctotylus. Camp Angouleme, French Guiana. Photo: P.J.R. Kok.