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Title:Nobmey – Origin of the name of the Phong people
Contributor (compiler):Stephen Morey
Contributor (consultant):Nobmey Songthing
Coverage:India
Date Created:2012-10-29
Description:One recording in which Mr Nobmey Songthing talks about the origin of the name of the Phong people. This consists of one sound file: nst-pho_20121029_07_SM_T_Nobmey_NameOfPhongPeople The details of this recording are as follows: nst-pho_20121029_07_SM_T_Nobmey_NameOfPhongPeople_Duration 2’44”, Name of the Ponthai people. The correct name of the people is Phong. The word nukta is used to mean ‘our people’. This recording also dealt with the origin of the word Ponthai. This was explained as follows: “Long ago the Zamindar at Margherita who did not know the correct name. There was a dispute about damage to crops by the buffalo between two people, and the Zamindar justified awarding the judgement to the Ponthai person, saying that they had the right point. So the people who say the correct words, are called point thik (they have a right point), hence Ponthai. The correct name is phong.The political officer at that time was Bipin Borgohain.”
Format:audio/x-wav
Identifier (URI):https://hdl.handle.net/1839/ffa4ba73-f466-44c1-b8bd-4e0fe1426fda
Is Part Of:DoBeS archive : Tangsa, Tai, Singpho in North East India
Language:Assamese
Tase Naga; Tangsa - Nukta variety (general name Ponthai)
English
Language (ISO639):asm
nst
eng
Publisher:The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Assamese language
Tase Naga language
Tangsa - Nukta variety (general name Ponthai)
English language
Subject (ISO639):asm
nst
eng
Type (DCMI):Sound

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:tla_1839_ffa4ba73_f466_44c1_b8bd_4e0fe1426fda
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Citation: Stephen Morey (compiler); Nobmey Songthing (consultant). 2012-10-29. DoBeS archive : Tangsa, Tai, Singpho in North East India.
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Area: AsiaEurope


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