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Title:Preservation of language and culture
poem_03
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):Sajan Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-12-09
Description:This session was recorded at Beltar on invitation. The poet exhorts his fellow Puma to develop and preserve the Puma language and culture. All the Puma native speakers should speak the Puma language.
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
In this poem the topic is the preservation of the Puma language and culture and the need for all to unite for this goal.
Puma language is frequently spoken in this session. Bantawa language is also used in some situation.
SR is a Puma consultant who has helped the Puma team in various ways. His clan is Tongmalung. He is the resident of Devisthan.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
He is a student and also a good person to help the Puma team as a consultant. so Puma team took advantage collecting many more datas with him.
Format:audio/x-wav
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED4-3
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Narrative
Poem
A kind of the poem which describes the Puma language
Bantawa language
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):bap
pum
Type:audio

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Citation: Arjun Rai; Sajan Rai (speaker). 2004-12-09. 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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