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Title: | Worshipping rajdeo in the house of Gadul Bdr. Rai in Chintang-3 | |
rajdeo_01 | ||
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
Contributor: | Ichchha | |
Contributor (speaker): | Gadul | |
Coverage: | Nepal | |
Date: | 2004-10-21 | |
Description: | It is the Rajdeo worship with mundhum in the house of Gadul Bdr. Rai in Chintang-3. | |
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, Devisthan 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 session records the worship of Rajdeo in the context of the Nuwagi ritual in Chintang. The ritual language (Mundhum) is chante by a knowledgeable elder (wattong). | ||
While worshipping the Nuwagi wattong, a priest chants the mundhum in Chintang ritual language and while talking to each other they use both languages namely Chintang and Nepali | ||
He is one of the elders of Chintang. He chants the mundhum for Nuwagi, the holy festival of Chintang Rai. | ||
Ichchha Purna Rai is the RA for the study of ethnography of Chintang | ||
Format: | DV | |
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EF20-A | |
CPDP | ||
Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
University of Leipzig | ||
Subject: | Ritual/religious texts | |
Unspecified | ||
Nepali (macrolanguage) | ||
Nepali | ||
Chhintange language | ||
Chintang | ||
Subject (ISO639): | nep | |
ctn | ||
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Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EF20-A | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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Citation: | Gadul (speaker); Ichchha. 2004-10-21. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_ctn iso639_nep | |
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Country: | Nepal | |
Area: | Asia |