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Title:Phagu festival history
myth_phagu_01
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):Pravin
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-03-24
Description:Phagu is celebrated by the Puma community. The reason of celebrating this festival and way of celebrating this festival is stated in this session. This session was recorded at Beltar.
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.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch
The reason behind the celebration of the phagu festival are described. The way of celebrating and shaman roles in this particualr situation is said in detail in this session.
Puma and the Bantawa languages are used in this session. In some situations, Nepali language is also used.
PR is a very good Puma who has served his community in a various ways.He is very proud of the preservation of the Puma language and culture.
PR is a consultant and a hard social worker of the Puma Community.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEC7-9
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Description
Phagu history
Bantawa language
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):bap
pum

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Citation: Pravin (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2004-03-24. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_pum

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Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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