oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0010-99BC-D
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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0010-99BC-D |
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| Title: | A collection of folk tales, myths from the Puma Rai community | |
| puma_tales | ||
| Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti Languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
| Contributor: | Parashu Rai | |
| Coverage: | Nepal | |
| Date: | 2008-01-30 | |
| Description: | In this session Parashu Rai (PR) has collected and compiled 22 folk tales and myths in Puma. They were collected from different places and persons on different occasions. | |
| 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. | ||
| In this session, the collector(writer) presents various myths, folk tales, stories concerning the Puma community and their ritual customs. The stories, tales are about the brothers Dabalung and Palung, the origin of the clans, the culture hero and his sisters, Hongmdevi etc. The texts are in the Puma language, and have been prepared for publication. | ||
| PR has the major responsibility for the collection of this book. He is very interested to publish it very soon. | ||
| Format: | application/pdf | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0010-99BC-D | |
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| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
| University of Leipzig | ||
| Subject: | Narrative | |
| Folk tale | ||
| Collection of folk tales and myths | ||
| Puma language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | pum | |
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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_00-0000-0000-0010-99BC-D | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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| Citation: | Parashu Rai. 2008-01-30. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_pum | |
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| Country: | Nepal | |
| Area: | Asia | |