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Title:		Tengman Mossang Basti
		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:		2011-01-07
Description:		Tengman basti (about 10 kms from Monmau on a road that is bad in the first half but excellent later) is also a Mossang basti with 49 families, of which 13 are CRC and the other Catholic. It started in 1987 in its present location. There is a school till Cl. VI. We first went to the house of Lemthai Mossang who is a member of the village committee and in the CRC. He said he became Baptist in 1990 and then became CRC only about 7 years back as a shortcut way to get to heaven. They are even stricter than the Baptists, because they believe in actively throwing out the Shaitan which the Baptists will not do. Theirs is a joint family of 4 brothers and 6 sisters along with their parents live together in one long house (our driver ajit also lives there when he is in Manmau). Lemthai himself has 4 boys and 1 girl, the eldest studying in Cl.IV. They live on jhum kheti and on hunting. Lemthai had killed a huge deer with massive antlers and had sold 80 kilos of meat at 50 Rs. per kilo to other villagers. Wangkhum is the sister who is doing her BA in Changlang – she was at home. The GB of the basti Koulon Mossang was busy with preparations for the conference so we did not bother him more than having greeted him. We went for a walk in the basti and met some active Catholic church members, Lungkhum Lungtu.
		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_00-0000-0000-0017-C3AF-1
Publisher:		Stephen Morey
		Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
Subject:		unspecified
		Unspecified
		Tase Naga language
		Tangsa (Cholim)
Subject (ISO639):		nst
Type:		image
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DateStamp:		2017-04-21
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Citation:		Meenaxi Barkataki. 2011-01-07. Stephen Morey.
Terms:		area_Asia country_MM iso639_nst
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Country:		Myanmar
Area:		Asia