Khmu'
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smalley, William Allen
setName: label: See more items in
content: William A. Smalley papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.83 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2006-06, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (3.1) Khmu', 1958-1997; (3.2) Other Mon-Khmer Languages, 1952-1986
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Smalley was sent to Laos to study the Khmu' language in 1951. The language was the subject of his dissertation, which was later published as Outline of Khmu' Structure (1961). A copy of the publication can be found in this series along with Smalley's other writings,
notes, correspondence, and articles on the language. Additional materials in the collection are Khmu' language primers and a Khmu' lesson plan by Smalley. Khmu', a member of the Mon-Khmer language family, is also spoken in Thailand. Thus, some of the materials in this series may have been collected for his research on the languages and dialects of Thailand. Some notes and articles relating to other Mon-Khmer languages are also filed under this series.

More of Smalley's Khmu' related writings can be found in Series 5: Writings.