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Title:Myth about Baraha Lake
myth_baraha_01
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Martin Gaenszle
Contributor (speaker):Cakra Bahadur Rai
Dil Bahadur Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-11-23
Description:It was recorded at Cisapani VDC, Pathivara.The session describes about the history of origin of Baraha lake.
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 text narrates about the history of the origin of the Baraha Pokhari, a lake in the Puma area. .
Puma language is used by the speaker in most of the cases.
CBR was a neighbour of the house in which the team stayed in Pathivara. He was asked to narrate a story.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Mr Cakra Bahadur Rai is of the Thumrahang clan from Pathivara, and also a Puma shaman.
Mr Dil Bahadur Rai Thumrahang is a Puma shaman.He wants to preserve and document the Puma language and culture. He is the resident of Pathivara VDC.
Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography
Format:audio/x-wav
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED3-3
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Narrative
Myth
Baraha lake
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):nep
pum
Type:audio

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Citation: Arjun Rai; Cakra Bahadur Rai (speaker); Dil Bahadur Rai (speaker); Martin Gaenszle. 2004-11-23. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_nep iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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