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Making a Lexibank Dataset from Lee’s “Phonological Features of Caijia” from 2023

Caijia is a very interesting Sino-Tibetan language variety. It has been documented only recently, it seems to belong to the Sinitic branch of Sino-Tibetan, but shows some archaic features that have led to some controversies among scholars regarding its proper affiliation, and detailed comparative analyses of the language in comparison with other Sino-Tibetan languages are still in their infancy. This little study demonstrates how a first published wordlist of Caijia (Lee 2023) can be prepared for the inclusion in the Lexibank repository.
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