Talk:Faihriem

RFV
Rfv-sense: "The Tibeto-Burman language spoken by these people" (the Faihriem). Enough of the 13 Google Book hits seem to justify the tribe sense, but none of them seem to mention a language. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No hits on Ethnologue ( (didn't let me link directly to the results)). Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 14:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I found one book that called it a dialect; that's all I can find. (Thanks for moving the cites page. SB's caught me creating cites pages in the main namespace sometimes, too. Sorry!) - -sche (discuss) 20:16, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Found a second one: yields two consistent results. See the last paragraph of this page. — Xavier, 22:51, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We may be seeing different pages (I had to use a bit of trickery to get Google to show me the content you link to), but what I see (on page 117) is: " 21 clans. They are Biete, Changsan, Chawrai, Darngawn, Faihriem, and Zote. The past tradition suggests that each clan had a dialect of its own but nowadays a common dialect used by the Hmar people was developed by Christian missionaries." That only establishes "Faihriem" as the name of a tribe that has a dialect, not as the name of the dialect. (In fact, I already used that quotation under the "tribe" sense.) - -sche (discuss) 00:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You are right. I just wanted to stress the consitency of two different results: one book that states that the Faihriem tribe has its own dialect (the paragraph you cited above) and another that names the dialect (the quotation in the article). I agree that we don't have our three quotations (yet) but I'd say that we have enough to attest the existence and name of the dialect.
 * BTW, by "trickery" you mean that you don't have a direct access to the page preview? I'm located in France and I have no problem reading the page anonymously. I assume it depends on your location. — Xavier, 00:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I mean that when I clicked on the link, it told me in French "you have reached your viewing limit" (which often happens when I try to view pages via links from here); I had to start a fresh search for the book, and then search within it for the word. - -sche (discuss) 00:53, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Mostly RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 23:35, 13 March 2012 (UTC)