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Title:		TBCA Annual Conference
		The Traditional Songs And Poetry Of Upper Assam – A Multifaceted Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Tangsa, Tai and Singpho Communities in Margherita, Northeast India
Contributor:		Meenaxi Barkataki
Coverage:		India
Date:		2011-01-08
Description:		Mungkam (or Warra II) hosted the Annual Baptist Youth meet this year. One has to go in from 10-mile for about a kilometre till one reaches the river and must walk from there. The village is on the other side of the river but they had constructed a bamboo foot bridge for the occasion. The scenes I saw were absolutely spectacular – there were camps made of plastic and straw and bamboos where all the youth from different Baptist churches across Arunchal were staying. In the main area a huge pandal had been set up to accommodate about 3000 delegates. I was told that 1700 youth were staying and more than a thousand were coming and going daily. For a little village like Warra with less than 150 people, this is quite an amazing feat. It seems thay have been preparing for it for more than a year now – rearing pigs and poultry, growing wheat, etc. for this occasion. Everyone has to pay a base fee of Rs. 35/- per head per visit but that was all – the youth who stayed probably had to pay more. It seems how much one had to pay was very much dependent on the host village – this year Mungkam was taking care of everything for the guests – the GB had himself contributed 50,000 towards the splendid pandal (which cost more than 80,000 in all). All the villagers had also contributed in whatever way they could and rich neighbouring villages like Jairampur and Phulbari had helped in cash and kind respectively.
		This project contains linguistic, musicalogical, ethnographic and other cultural information about three communities in Upper Assam: Singpho, Tai and Tangsa. The recordings and analyses have been done by Stephen Morey, together with Palash Kumar Nath (Gauhati University), Juergen Schoepf (Phonogrammarchiv, Vienna), Meenaxi Barkataki Ruscheweyh (Goettingen Academy of Sciences), Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai (Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai), Zeenat Tabassum (Gauhati University), Karabi Mazumder (Gauhati University), Krishna Boro (Gauhati University), Paul Hastie (LaTrobe University). The key aims of the project were • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the varieties of Tangsa language spoken in the Margherita Subdivision of Upper Assam, India, • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the traditional songs, and poetry of three endangered language communities in the Margherita Subdivision: the Tangsa and Singpho (both Tibeto-Burman) and the Tai (Tai-Kadai), including a study of Tai traditional manuscripts, which are highly relevant for language and culture maintenance among the Tai. Within each of these communities there is considerable linguistic and cultural diversity, so all the files have been divided up and named according to this system: Tai SDM01 Phake SDM02 Aiton SDM03 Khamyang SDM04 Ahom SDM05 Khamti Singpho SDM07 Turung SDM08 Numhpuk Hkawng SDM09 Diyun Hkawng SDM10 Tieng Hkawng Tangsa SDM11 Youngkuk SDM12 Cholim SDM13 Kimsing SDM14 Tikhak SDM15 Lochhang SDM16 Ngaimong SDM17 Maitai SDM18 Shechhyv SDM19 Mossang SDM20 Khvlak SDM21 Lakkai SDM22 Lungri SDM23 Hakhun SDM24 Lungkhe SDM25 Ronrang SDM26 Sangte SDM27 Sangwal SDM28 Halang SDM29 Haseng SDM30 Morang SDM31 Moklum
		Three short recordings in which Lukam Tonglum talks about the Wihu song, a style of song performed at the festival of Wihu Kuq This consists of the following sound files: SDM12-2008Tascam-117.wav, length 4'00"; recorded on 9/1/2008 SDM12-2008Tascam-118.wav, length 3'29"; recorded on 9/1/2008 SDM12-2008Tascam-119.wav, length 2'07"; recorded on 9/1/2008 The contents of each recording are as follows SDM12-2008Tascam-117.wav, Singing the Wihu song already performed by the girls of Kharang Kong in SDM12-20071215-01-1178_GirlsDancingGroup 2'40". This recording includes some discussion SDM12-2008Tascam-118.wav, Further discussion of song styles, with relation to SDM12-20071215-01-1178_GirlsDancingGroup 2'40", singing the dance style as well as the Wihu Kuq style SDM12-2008Tascam-119.wav, Further discussion of song styles, with relation to SDM12-20071215-01-1178_GirlsDancingGroup 2'40"; includes discussion about how the children learned the songs
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Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-2342-B
Publisher:		Stephen Morey
		Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
Subject:		unspecified
		Unspecified
		Tase Naga language
		Tangsa (Cholim)
Subject (ISO639):		nst
Type:		audio
		image
		video
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DateStamp:		2017-04-21
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Citation:		Meenaxi Barkataki. 2011-01-08. Stephen Morey.
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Country:		Myanmar
Area:		Asia