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Title:Puma dance
hopma_dance
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2005-05-11
Description:This session was recorded at Diplung-7, dadatole. In this session, Puma's endangered cultural song is sung. One of the great singer has sung this song telling about the origin and history of the phagu festival, sumnima Paruhang and the human beings.
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 speaker talks about the origin, history of the Sumnima and Paruhang and also the singing about the phagu festival. The origin of human beings is also stated in this session.
Puma mundhum language is used in this session.
MBR is a good singer and a resident of Diplung VDC. He is a farmer and popularly known as 'Maruni' which means good singer and dancer.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000F-5BEA-7
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Photography
Singing
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):pum

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Citation: Arjun Rai. 2005-05-11. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_pum

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Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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