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Apatani People
The Apatani (or Tanw, Tanii) are a tribal group of people living in the Ziro valley in the Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh in India. This tribe speaks the languages Apatani, English and Hindi. Customs and lifestyle Their wet rice cultivation system and their agriculture system are extensive even without the use of any farm animals or machines. So is their sustainable social forestry system. UNESCO has proposed the Apatani valley for inclusion as a World Heritage Site for its "extremely high productivity" and "unique" way of preserving the ecology. They have two major festivals – Dree and Myoko. In July, the agricultural festival of Dree is celebrated with prayers for a bumper harvest and prosperity of all humankind. Paku-Itu, Daminda, Piree dance, etc., are the main cultural programmes performed in the festival. Myoko is celebrated to commemorate the intervillage friendship that has been passed down by the forefathers for generations until present. This spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apatani Language
Apatani (Apa Tani, Tanw) is a Tani language, a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, spoken in India. Classification Post & Kanno (2013) and Macario (2015)Macario, Florens. 2015. The genetic position of Apatani within Tibeto-Burman. North East Indian Linguistics 7', 213-233. Canberra, Australian National University: Asia-Pacific Linguistics Open Access. notes that Apatani has various words that do not reconstruct to Proto- Tani, pointing to a possible non-Tani substratum in Apatani. Macario (2015) lists the following divergent Apatani forms that do not reconstruct to Proto-Tani. Geographical distribution In Lower Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh, Apatani is spoken in 7 villages in Ziro valley, namely Hong, Hari, Biilla, Dutta, Hija, Mudang-Tage, and Bamin Michi (''Ethnologue''). Writing system Like most endangered oral languages, Apatani did not have a standardized orthography, until recently, and there was some debate among the Apatanis on which script should be used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |