OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CDE-4

Metadata
Title:		Origin of Chintang Devi
		Orig_ctn_devi
		Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages in East Nepal
Contributor:		Netra
Contributor (speaker):		Lokendra
Coverage:		Nepal
Description:		The participant was requested by Netra to talk about Jalpa Devi, a very famous goddess of Chintang. This text describes how the Chintang goddess comes in the existence. She is also called Jalpa Devi by the Rai's of Chintang. The recording is quality is good.
		The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.
		Lokendra talks on Jalpa Devi. He mainly talks about the origin of Jalpa Devi.How and when the Chintang goddess originated is the main theme of the talk.
		The whole session is in Chintang. However, there are very few lexical items borrowed from Nepali as well.
		Netra recorded this session and Lokendra narrated his memories on Chintang Devi.
		Lokendra is a teacher of a primary School in Chintang. He is a very good singer. His father in a native Chintang, but mother is a native Bantawa. She learnt Chintang in Chintang. He has never left the area for more than two months. CPDP helped him to publish a book on Chintang culture.His house is very closte to the Jalpa Devi temple and his ethnic clan is tele.
		I completed Masters Degree in Linguistics from Tribhuvan University, and currently working as a Research Assistant in the (DOBES) project. I am in charge of Linguistic works and analysis.
Format:		text/x-toolbox-text
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CDE-4
		CPDP
Publisher:		Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
		University of Leipzig
Subject:		Description
		past memories
		Nepali (macrolanguage)
		Nepali
		Chhintange language
		Chintang
Subject (ISO639):		nep
		ctn
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-2CDE-4
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Lokendra (speaker); Netra. n.d. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms:		area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Nepal
Area:		Asia