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Japhug ([kɯrɯskɤt]) is a language spoken by

Link to the corpus repository

Resources developed for Japhug

Japhug Resources

Ongoing project to create a rules-based translation system between Japhug and English.

Computational

Dictionaries

• Dictionnaire Japhug Chinois Francais: https://hal.inria.fr/halshs-01244860/
  • Dictionary in Chinese and French
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Grammatical Descriptions

• A Grammar of Japhug – Guillaume Jacques
  • Japhug grammar book
  • Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0)
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2016b. Subjects, objects and relativization in Japhug. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 44(1). 1–28.
• Jacques, Guillaume & Zhen Chen. 2004. 茶堡话的重叠形式. 民族語文 Mínzú yǔwén 4. 7–11.
• Jacques, Guillaume & Zhen Chen. 2007. 茶堡话的不及物前缀及相关问题. Language and Linguistics 8.4. 883–912.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2010a. The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong. Language and Linguistics 11.1. 127–157.

Scientific Works

Most of the scientific works are Guillaume Jacques’s works, as listed below:

• Jacques, Guillaume. 2004. Phonologie et morphologie du japhug (Rgyalrong): Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot dissertation.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2007. La réduplication partielle en japhug, révélatrice des structures syllabiques. Faits de langues 29. 9–21.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2008. 嘉絨語研究 Jiāróngyǔ yánjiū (Study on the Rgyalrong language). Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2010a. The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong. Language and Linguistics 11.1. 127–157.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2012b. Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong. In Katharina Haude & Gilles Authier (eds.), Ergativity, Valency and Voice, 199–226. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2013c. Ideophones in Japhug Rgyalrong. Anthropo- logical Linguistics 55.3. 256–287.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2014a. Clause linking in Japhug Rgyalrong. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37.2. 263–327.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2014b. Denominal aixes as sources of antipassive markers in Japhug Rgyalrong. Lingua 138. 1–22.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2014c. Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie his- torique du tangoute. Leiden: Brill.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2015a. Dictionnaire Japhug-Chinois-Français, version 1.0. Paris: Projet HimalCo. http://himalco.huma-num.fr/.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2016b. Subjects, objects and relativization in Japhug. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 44(1). 1–28.
• Jacques, Guillaume & Zhen Chen. 2004. 茶堡话的重叠形式. 民族語文 Mínzú yǔwén 4. 7–11.
• Jacques, Guillaume & Zhen Chen. 2007. 茶堡话的不及物前缀及相关问题. Language and Linguistics 8.4. 883–912.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2019. Japhug. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Vol. 49 Issue 3, pp. 427–450.
• Jacques, Guillaume. 2019. Egophoric marking and person indexation in Japhug Language and linguistics (Taipei), Vol.20 (4), p.515-534

Corpora

• Japhug corpus
  • Audio recordings of traditional stories and conversations in Japhug with written French and Chinese translations
  • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

• Single-speaker audio corpus
  • Dataset of audio files with IPA transcriptions, metadata in English
  • Speaker of this corpus is Ms. Tshendzin
  • License for files: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 France

• The vocabulary of weaving in Japhug from a comparative perspective
  • YouTube video; Jacques lectures on Japhug weaving vocab
  • Standard YouTube license?

• yGyalrongic Languages Database
  • Dataset of 200 Sample sentences in different rGyalrongic language speaking areas.
  • Have obtained permission from the author Professor Y.Nagano.

Keyboard Layout

Japhug Keyboard Layout

Grammar

Japhug Grammar

Transducer

Translation Pair

For convenience, the language we are going to translate to/from is English. Translation Pair Japhug-English

Developed Resources

Contrastive Grammars