Time expressions in Daai Chin

Abstract

The Daai Chin people from the Southern Chin Hills of Burma II. 21 continue to preserve a picturesque semantic categorization of temporal reference. Most of the Daai speaking area remains without electricity and few people possess watches. Teachers, students. soldiers. and government servants may have watches and use the Burmese/Western system of dividing time among themselves, but by far the majority of the Daai speaking people are both monolingual and use their traditional system of time expressions.