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Every recording our team made with native Chak speakers in Naikkhangchori, Bandarban. Each one plays straight from Wikimedia Commons.

  • 474 recordings
  • 11 sessions
  • 140 Swadesh list
  • 323 elicitation list

Showing 474 recordings.

Recording sessions

11 long recordings
Cultural items and constructions
6:26
Cultural items and constructions (full)Source on Commons
Discussion: cultural items
15:12
Discussion of cultural item and constructsSource on Commons

Swadesh list

115 words · 140 recordings · on Commons
  • And
  • Because
  • Berry
  • Bird
  • Bite
  • Blow
  • Breath
  • Burn
  • Clothing
  • Cook
  • Count
  • Cut
  • Die
  • Dig
  • Dirty
  • Drink
  • Dry
  • Dull
  • Fall
  • Fat
  • Fear
  • Feather
  • Few
  • Fight
  • Fish
  • Float
  • Flow
  • Fly
  • Freeze
  • Give
  • Guts
  • Hear
  • Hold
  • How
  • If
  • Kill
  • Know
  • Lie (Rest)
  • Live
  • Many
  • Narrow
  • New
  • New (2)
  • Not
  • Old (opposite of new)
  • Old (opposite of young)
  • Other
  • Play
  • Puke
  • Pull
  • Push
  • Right
  • River
  • Rotten
  • Rub
  • Scratch
  • Sea
  • See
  • Seed
  • Sew
  • Sharp
  • Shoot
  • Sit
  • Sleep
  • Smell
  • Smooth
  • Some
  • Spit
  • Split
  • Squeeze
  • Stab
  • Stand
  • Stick
  • Straight
  • Suck
  • Sun
  • Swell
  • Swim
  • Tail
  • That
  • There
  • They
  • Thick
  • Thin
  • Think
  • This
  • Throw
  • Tie
  • Tongue
  • Tooth
  • Tree
  • Turn
  • Twenty
  • Walk
  • Warm
  • Wash
  • Water
  • Wet
  • What
  • When
  • Where
  • White
  • Who
  • Wife
  • Wind
  • Wing
  • Wipe
  • Wise
  • With
  • Woman
  • Woods
  • Work
  • Worm
  • Year
  • Yellow

Master elicitation list

218 words · 323 recordings · on Commons
  • Air
  • All
  • Alone
  • Ankle
  • Another
  • Ant
  • Arm
  • At night
  • Awake
  • Back
  • Backbone
  • Bad
  • Bald
  • Bat
  • Bear
  • Beard
  • Beautiful
  • Bee
  • Belly
  • Better
  • Big
  • Bird
  • Birth
  • Blind
  • Blood
  • Boar
  • Boiled
  • Bone
  • Both
  • Brain
  • Broken
  • Burned
  • Butterfly
  • Cave
  • Cheek
  • Chest
  • Chicken
  • Chicken egg
  • Chin
  • Clean
  • Cloud
  • Cloudy
  • Cockroach
  • Cold
  • Cooked
  • Cough
  • Crab
  • Crocodile
  • Crow
  • Dark
  • Day
  • Day after tomorrow
  • Day before yesterday
  • Dead
  • Deaf
  • Deap
  • Death
  • Dirty
  • Dog
  • Dream
  • Dried
  • Duck
  • Eagle
  • Ear
  • Elbow
  • Elderly
  • Every
  • Everyday
  • Eye
  • Eyebrow
  • Fast
  • Fat
  • Fat (person)
  • Feather
  • Female
  • Finger
  • Finger nail
  • Fire
  • Fish
  • Fist
  • Flat
  • Flea
  • Fly
  • Foot
  • Free
  • Frightened
  • Frog
  • Fullmoon
  • Gold
  • Good
  • Hail
  • Hair
  • Happy
  • Hard
  • Head
  • Heart
  • Hidden
  • High
  • Hive
  • Hole
  • Honey
  • Hot
  • Huge
  • Hungry
  • Impossible
  • In morning
  • Itch
  • Kind
  • Knee
  • Language
  • Leech
  • Left
  • Leg
  • Lightning
  • Little
  • Little Finger
  • Lizard
  • Long
  • Louse
  • Lung
  • Male
  • Meat
  • Monkey
  • Moon
  • Mosquito
  • Mountain
  • Mouse
  • Mouth
  • Mud
  • Name
  • Neck
  • Nest
  • Never
  • New
  • Night
  • No
  • Nose
  • Now
  • Ocean
  • Old
  • Ols (Person)
  • Orphane
  • Other
  • Pain
  • Pig
  • Pond
  • Poor
  • Possible
  • Powerful
  • Rain
  • Rainbow
  • Rib
  • Rich
  • Right
  • Ripe
  • River
  • Rock
  • Sad
  • Saliva
  • Salt
  • Sand
  • Sharp
  • Shoulder
  • Sick
  • Silent
  • Skin
  • Skull
  • Sky
  • Slow
  • Small
  • Smell
  • Smoke
  • Smooth
  • Snake
  • Snow
  • Spider
  • Star
  • Stomach
  • Stone
  • Story
  • Strong
  • Summer
  • Sun
  • Sweat
  • Sweet
  • Thick
  • Thigh
  • Thin
  • Thumb
  • Tiger
  • Tired
  • Toad
  • Today
  • Toe
  • Toe nail
  • Tomorrow
  • Tongue
  • Tooth
  • True
  • Turtle
  • Urine
  • Valley
  • Vomit
  • Waist
  • Water
  • Waterfall
  • Weak
  • Wet
  • Wide
  • Wind
  • Wing
  • Winter
  • Word
  • Worm
  • Year
  • Yes
  • Yesterday
  • Young

Recordings by Wasiul Bahar with native Chak speakers, CC BY-SA 4.0, on Wikimedia Commons. English words are the prompts the speakers translated into Chak. Some words have a second take.