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| Title: | Cholim - Creation story | |
| 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 | |
| Contributor (consultant): | Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups) | |
| Coverage: | India | |
| Date: | 2009-11-03 | |
| Description: | A creation story, as told to me by Lukam Tonglum There is one story that I have not told Morey, because it has some embarrassing elements, but I also realise that one should not be shy while recounting history, so I will tell you the story. Once upon a time the waters rose and covered the whole world except for one hill where lots of the animals, and a brother-sister couple took refuge. That was the time when humans would go to sleep also with animals, and had found out that it felt cold when one slept with snakes, hot with tigers, not so comfortable when one slept with pigs and so on. It was nicest to sleep with elephants and tigers. At some point, the sister developed a big swelling in one of her knees – it grew and grew and she could not move, had to lie in bed and was very ill. The only cure for it was for the brother to prick the lump with his penis – as he did so the lump burst and creatures like little ants were ejected and scattered all over the world. These ants later became human beings and populated the world. | |
| 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 (Phonogram Archiv, Vienna), Meenaxi Bhattacharjee, Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai (Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai), Zeenat Tabassum (Gauhati University), Karabi Mazumder (Gauhati University), Krishna Boro (Gauhati 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 | ||
| SDM-ass-2009-11-03-05-MB-beginning-of-story08.wav SDM-ass-2009-11-03-08-MB-a-creation-story-Lukyam.wav | ||
| Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim) is the leader of the Cholim community in Kharang Kong. He came from Burma in the 1950s to join his brother who had already set up in Kharang Kong. He is very knowledgeable about all aspects of Cholim culture. | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0017-C57B-C | |
| Publisher: | Stephen Morey | |
| Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University | ||
| Subject: | Discourse | |
| Narrative | ||
| creation | ||
| Tase Naga language | ||
| Tangsa - Cholim variety (general name Tonglum) | ||
| Assamese language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | nst | |
| asm | ||
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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_00-0000-0000-0017-C57B-C | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-04-21 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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| Citation: | Meenaxi Barkataki; Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups) (consultant). 2009-11-03. Stephen Morey. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia country_IN country_MM iso639_asm iso639_nst | |
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| Country: | IndiaMyanmar | |
| Area: | Asia | |