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Title:Myth of Sumnima
myth_sumni_03
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Martin Gaenszle
Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):Prithvi Bahadur Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-11-22
Description:It was recorded at Dapsa, Diplung VDC. The myth of Sumnima and her deeds are narrated by the speaker.
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 session, the narrator tells the myth of Sumnima and her marriage with Paruhang. The interesting events that happened in their marriage process are described in detail.
The speaker in this session is the pure Puma native speaker. So in this recording, it is used the Puma language with some additional speaking of the Bantawa in some situation.
PBR is well known Puma who is very good to tell the Puma stories and myths. So the Puma team met him and requested to tell the stories.
Dr. Gaenszle is the researcher in charge of ethnography
He is a village elder and a former pradhan panch (village chairman)
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:audio/x-wav
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED5-9
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Life of Sumnima
Bantawa language
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):bap
nep
pum
Type:audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EED5-9
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Search Info

Citation: Martin Gaenszle; Prithvi Bahadur Rai (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2004-11-22. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_bap iso639_nep iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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