Appendix The following is a Plang text transcribed and translated into English. The romanized ortho-graphy used is a simplified phonemic. The following chart shows the correspondence between the phonemic characters used in this paper and the simplified orthography used in the text, where different anemic Simplified Roman Phonemic Simplified Roman ? q m hm P^ ph 9 hn t*^ th J^ hji c^ ch j hi k*^ kh low tone final X D ng Phonology ofPlang Paulsen Visiting Relatives in China iq muk nang hwej nam khun teqx. we(3+) live at creek water muddy here "We live here at Huay Nam Khun. " jiuqx nang eng cuiq maqx cuiq kaji ne, if future come/return visit mother visit father refl "When we go to visit mother and father, " eng cuiq jk cuiq ong ne, come/return visit old.brother visit ygr sibling refl "go to visit sihiings, " eng cuiq taq cuiq jaq re. come/return visit grandfather visit grandmother refl "go to visit grandparents, " phokx kaqx nang hwej nam khun eng rotx nang mesaj. ride car at creek water muddy come arrive ai mesay Ve catch a vehicle from Huay Nam Khun to Mae Saay. " luc ceng kaqx haq wat rok wat. pay price car five baht six baht "We pay 5 or 6 baht for the car. " to phokx kaqx mesaj tohx rotx nang chiangtung. then ride car mesay go up/north arrive at chiangtung "Then we catch a car from Mae Saay to Kengtung. " uic song sam rojx. pay two three hundred 'We pay 2-300." PYU Working Papers in Linguistics Focus on Phonology Volume 1 1996 edited by Debbie Paulsen Payap University Graduate Linguistics Department Chiang Mai, Thailand