Contributions to the Description of Chimiini

Written by Charles W. Kisseberth

The first contribution is my rather massive dictionary and chrestomathy. It contains as much lexicon as I have been able to collect (as of 12-25-2019) and a vast body of sentences and phrases, all of which are prosodically analyzed (setting aside poetry and songs which do not display the same prosody as the spoken language).
Contributions to the Description of Chimiini

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