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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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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


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