myth_dip_01

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• lat-session
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  • Name : myth_dip_01
  • Title : Myth about the origin of the name Diplung
  • Date : 2005-03-24
  • descriptions
    • Description : In this session, the speaker speaks about the origin of the Diplung name. The people of the Dabalung clan are living in the Diplung region. The historical background of this settlement is explained in this session. This session was recorded at Beltar VDC.
  • Location
    • Continent : Asia
    • Country : Nepal
    • Region : Eastern Nepal
    • Address : Beltar-1, Udayapur District
  • Project
    • Name : Chintang and Puma Documentation Project
    • Title : Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
    • Id : CPDP
    • Contact
      • Name : Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
      • Address : Institut für Linguistik, Beethovenstr. 15, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
      • Email : bickel@uni-leipzig.de
      • Organisation : University of Leipzig
    • InfoLink
      • Description : 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.
  • Content
    • Genre : Discourse
    • SubGenre : Narrative
    • SubGenre : Myth
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : Myth about the Diplung
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : non-interactive
      • PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
      • Involvement : non-elicited
      • SocialContext : Public
      • EventStructure : Monologue
      • Channel : Face to Face
    • Content_Languages
      • descriptions
        • Description : Puma language is frequently used in this session. Bantawa language and Nepali language are used in some situations.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:nep
        • Name : Nepali
        • Dominant : false
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Nepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:bap
        • Name : Bantawa
        • Dominant : false
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Bantawa is polysynthetic language of the Kirati family of Sino-Tibetan and is spoken by most of the Rais in eastern Nepal. There are nearly 30 different languages spoken by the Rai community. Bantawa is a language of majority among the Rais and in many cases it serves as the lingua franca. Historically it seems the pattern of migration takes place from the west to the east of Nepal and most of the Rais give up their languages and take up Bantawa as they move to the east. Therefore it is widely spoken in the Bhojpur, Dhankutta, Panchthar and Ilam districts of eastern Nepal. It is also spoken in the west Bengal and Sikkim provinces of India and Bhutan. It has no script of its own and has no written tradition. Presently the government of Nepal has introduced Bantawa in the primary schools and text books are available now up to grade four. Radio Nepal also has its program of daily news broadcasting in Bantawa. The government of Sikkim has also introduced this language in the primary schools recently and they have invented a kind of script of their own, but in the case of Nepal, Bantawa is written in Devanagari with some extra diacritics. There is no reliable source to quote the number of speakers but it can be estimated that there are some one houndred thousand speakers in Nepal and approximately 50 thousand in India and Bhutan.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:pum
        • Name : Puma
        • Dominant : true
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Puma is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It is spoken mainly in Diplung, Mauwabote, Devisthan and Pauwasera Village Development Committees in Khotang district.
    • descriptions
      • Description : The mythology about the Diplung which is the centre region of the Puma settlers. One of the woman and mother talk about a first born child is the subject matter of discussion in this session.
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : PR is a student and also a social worker. He has collected manymore ethnographic and cultural datas.
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Pravin
      • FullName : Pravin Rai
      • Code : PR
      • FamilySocialRole : student
      • EthnicGroup : Puma
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : B.A.
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 28
      • Contact
        • Name : Privin Rai
        • Address : Pathivara-7, Cisapani VDC, Khotang District
      • descriptions
        • Description : PR is a consultant and a hard social worker of the Puma Community.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : Puma is the native language of the speaker. He speaks Nepali as the national language.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:pum
          • Name : Puma
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Puma is a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Kiranti family. It is spoken mainly in Diplung, Mauwabote, Devisthan and Pauwasera Village Development Committees in Khotang district.
    • Actor
      • Role : Collector
      • Name : Arjun Rai
      • FullName : Arjun Bantawa Rai
      • Code : AR
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup : Bantawa Rai
      • BirthDate : 1971-06-12
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : Master Degree (M. ED)
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 33
          • months : 9
          • days : 12
      • Contact
        • Name : Arjun Rai
        • Address : Khoku- 5, Dhankuta,
      • descriptions
        • Description : He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : His mother tongue is Bantawa. He speaks Nepali as second language, and English as third language.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:nep
          • Name : Nepali
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Nepali is the national language of Nepal. It is widely used as lingua franca. And it is the major medium of teaching at schools. As Nepali is increasingly used as primary language, it poses the greatest threat to the endangered languages of Nepal.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:eng
          • Name : English
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:bap
          • Name : Bantawa
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Bantawa is polysynthetic language of the Kirati family of Sino-Tibetan and is spoken by most of the Rais in eastern Nepal. There are nearly 30 different languages spoken by the Rai community. Bantawa is a language of majority among the Rais and in many cases it serves as the lingua franca. Historically it seems the pattern of migration takes place from the west to the east of Nepal and most of the Rais give up their languages and take up Bantawa as they move to the east. Therefore it is widely spoken in the Bhojpur, Dhankutta, Panchthar and Ilam districts of eastern Nepal. It is also spoken in the west Bengal and Sikkim provinces of India and Bhutan. It has no script of its own and has no written tradition. Presently the government of Nepal has introduced Bantawa in the primary schools and text books are available now up to grade four. Radio Nepal also has its program of daily news broadcasting in Bantawa. The government of Sikkim has also introduced this language in the primary schools recently and they have invented a kind of script of their own, but in the case of Nepal, Bantawa is written in Devanagari with some extra diacritics. There is no reliable source to quote the number of speakers but it can be estimated that there are some one houndred thousand speakers in Nepal and approximately 50 thousand in India and Bhutan.
  • Resources
    • Source
      • Id : CPMGVDP24Mar0501
      • Format : DV
      • Quality : 1
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        • Start : 00:13:04
        • End : 00:19:41
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