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Metadata
Title:Song about Mount Everest
comolung_song
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Netra
Contributor (speaker):Surya
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-05-01
Description:This session is recorded up on our request in Chintang. It is about the importance of one's mother tongue. The song tells the new generation to use their language. The recording quality is good.
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
At the first the singer introduces himself. Then, he presents the importance of his mother tongue with help of song. He wants to make his mother tongue as popular as the height of Mount Everest.
The whole song is in Chintang.
Suraya Walung Rai is a speaker and singer of this session. Mr. Paudyal collected and annoted this session.
Surya is a teacher of a primary School in Chintang. He is a very good singer. Both of his parents are native Chintang. He has never left the area for more than two months. His wife comes from a Bramin family and has got one daughter.
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.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEF0-3
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Singing
Invented song
The Mount Everest Song
Chhintange language
Chintang
Subject (ISO639):ctn

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Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEF0-3
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: Surya (speaker); Netra. 2005-05-01. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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