The language of Akha ritual texts
In this paper I would like to discuss the problems I am having in analyzing Akha ritual texts from a grammatical point of view, and in Judging their antiquity and thereby their value for historical grammar and phonology.' The text I have started to work with in detail is the Akha Death Ritual...
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| description | In this paper I would like to discuss the problems I am having in analyzing Akha ritual texts from a grammatical point of view, and in Judging their antiquity and thereby their value for historical grammar and phonology.'
The text I have started to work with in detail is the Akha Death Ritual Text (tsho-ha sjhi xaq a n6q tho tho a) as recited by the phi-ma [priest] abo-go of the dzo clan. Maeby village. Chiengrai province. Thailand. Apart from the Death Rituals, there are also other phi-ma texts. e.g. in connection with recitations for sickness, calling a lost soul back, or securing good health. Besides these phi-ma. texts, there are also texts belonging to the offices of dzo 'village leader.' and nji-pha 'shaman,' and of course a rich variety of songs sung by everybody according to the occasion. I won't talk about this vast corpus of Akha orally transmitted literature (to which we should also add the stones told in the vernacular language), but only say that it Is an extremely valuable repository of material for the study of Akha culture in all its aspects, and for the information it gives about the history of a minority people and the region they inhabit, that is. the area where China, Burma. Thailand, Laos. and Vietnam meet. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1792472024-07-25T06:29:55Z The language of Akha ritual texts Hansson, Inga-Lill University of Lund, Sweden Arts and Humanities In this paper I would like to discuss the problems I am having in analyzing Akha ritual texts from a grammatical point of view, and in Judging their antiquity and thereby their value for historical grammar and phonology.' The text I have started to work with in detail is the Akha Death Ritual Text (tsho-ha sjhi xaq a n6q tho tho a) as recited by the phi-ma [priest] abo-go of the dzo clan. Maeby village. Chiengrai province. Thailand. Apart from the Death Rituals, there are also other phi-ma texts. e.g. in connection with recitations for sickness, calling a lost soul back, or securing good health. Besides these phi-ma. texts, there are also texts belonging to the offices of dzo 'village leader.' and nji-pha 'shaman,' and of course a rich variety of songs sung by everybody according to the occasion. I won't talk about this vast corpus of Akha orally transmitted literature (to which we should also add the stones told in the vernacular language), but only say that it Is an extremely valuable repository of material for the study of Akha culture in all its aspects, and for the information it gives about the history of a minority people and the region they inhabit, that is. the area where China, Burma. Thailand, Laos. and Vietnam meet. Published version 2024-07-25T06:29:55Z 2024-07-25T06:29:55Z 1991 Journal Article Hansson, I. (1991). The language of Akha ritual texts. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 14(2), 155-167. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.14.2.07 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179247 10.32655/LTBA.14.2.07 2 14 155 167 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1991 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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