Dear project backers,

Field notes and audio recordings are now all publicly online, with audio recordings archived on Zenodo, an open-access online research data repository. Five languages had been documented in southeastern Yunnan province, China, with three new Tibeto-Burman languages discovered. The newly discovered languages are (click on the links below for field notes and audio recordings):

 Mauphu 

 Mongphu 

 Motang 

The following two languages were also documented.

Kathu -- Many words with archaic sounds preserved from the Proto-Tibeto-Burman languages had been recorded. Nasu (Lanqing) -- This language turned out to be similar to Nasu of eastern Yunnan and western Guizhou. My website (https://sites.google.com/site/msealangs/) also contains field notes and links to audio recordings for more than 70 language varieties in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and the Philippines that I had personally recorded. Transcribed word lists have also been uploaded onto my website, in Excel spreadsheet format (.xlsx).

All research results funded by the people also belong to the people. This is research of the people, by the people, and for the people. Linguistic data should not be hoarded and hidden from others!

Yours sincerely,

Andy