So, I have begun the quest to figure out at least a few different dialects and which dialect is spoken by the people I know who live around me. I found one family today who speaks the same as Aunty and Uncle. And it seems that Panna also speaks the same as they do.
I asked Gaitree to listen to a recording of Anne's to see if she could tell me if she speaks the exact same dialect as her, or a little different…Gaitree understood what she said, and said there was only little differences. I tried to ask her what they were, and she gave me two examples, but they didn’t really help me. I am going to ask Anne tomorrow how she says, “I am going” – because the way Gaitree says it, and the way Uncle says it, and the way it is said in the village are all different. I am curious to see if the way Anne says it matches with any one of those or something entirely different.
I'll try and learn Anne's dialect, but that kind-of all depends on which dialect she speaks and if I can find others who speak the same as her. And, I’m guessing that it is NOT the same as our neighbor or Aunty or Uncle, or Anju or Gaitree. That wouldn’t be a surprise.
Hmm.
Another thing- in some ways, we have been here about 9 months, and we have about 15 months- and we are JUST getting started on the work….would it really only take 15 months to do all the storying work? Goodness…wow….there is a lot to do!
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