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Title:Chintang song with suggestion
ctn_song_JK02
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Goma
Contributor (annotator):Netra
Contributor (consultant):Janak
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-04-14
Description:This song is recorded on collector's (Goma Banjade) request in Dhankuta. She wanted to record a song. It is written by Rikhi Maya Rai and sung by Janak Kumari Rai. This song addresses the contemporary political issue of Nepal.
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
This is an invented song. It suggests people not to fight among themselves and be united. The song says, ''we should be united, we should not fight with each other''. The song further says, we all are brothers, one brother should not kill the other. We should not offer our blood to Lord Buddha.
Chintang is the only language that is used throughout this session. However, there are very few words borrowed from Nepali as well.
JK is one of our regular consultants. NP and GB are research Assistants.
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.
Assistant researcher in Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Development
Janak works as one of our regular consultants. She is a college level student. She was born and brought up in Chintang, Sambugaun. Both she and her parents have Chintang as the first native language but their ethnic background is Athpahare. She has never left the area for long time.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECE-4
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Singing
invented song
peace song
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):nep
ctn

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EECE-4
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Netra (annotator); Goma; Janak (consultant). 2004-04-14. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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