oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECC-F
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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECC-F |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | Description of a wedding symbol | |
| bulu_batuko_02 | ||
| Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
| Contributor: | Arjun Rai | |
| Martin Gaenszle | ||
| Contributor (speaker): | Cakra Bahadur Rai | |
| Coverage: | Nepal | |
| Date: | 2004-11-23 | |
| Description: | It was recorded at Cisapani. This recording describes a specific marriage ritual in which a metal bowl is an important symbol. | |
| 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 description of the Puma marriage related with the Bulu batuko, a small metal bowl which plays an important role in the Puma marriage.The bowl should be taken to the house of bride. A hen's blood is put into a bulukhung, a small bowl and is taken to the bride's home. | ||
| Puma language has been used throughout in this session with occasional words and phrases of Bantawa and Nepali languages. | ||
| The speaker is a Puma native speaker. He is very much interested in preserving Puma language and culture. The girl in the picture is his daughter. | ||
| He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team. | ||
| Mr Cakra Bahadur Rai (Thumrahang) a knowledgeable man who is also a Puma shaman. | ||
| Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| DV | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECC-F | |
| CPDP | ||
| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
| University of Leipzig | ||
| Subject: | Discourse | |
| Description | ||
| marriage ceremony | ||
| Bantawa language | ||
| Nepali (macrolanguage) | ||
| Nepali | ||
| Puma language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | bap | |
| nep | ||
| pum | ||
| Type: | audio | |
OLAC Info |
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| 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 |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECC-F | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Arjun Rai; Cakra Bahadur Rai (speaker); Martin Gaenszle. 2004-11-23. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_nep iso639_pum | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Nepal | |
| Area: | Asia | |