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Konyak Naga
The Konyaks are one of the major Naga ethnic groups. In Nagaland, they inhabit the Mon District, which is also known as ''The Land of the Anghs''. The ''Anghs''/''Wangs'' are their traditional chiefs whom they hold in high esteem. Facial tattoos were earned for taking an enemy's head. Other unique traditional practices that set the Konyaks apart are: gunsmithing, iron-smelting, brass-works, and gunpowder-making. They are also known for in making excellent ''Yanglaü'' (machetes) and wooden sculptures. Society The Konyaks are the largest of the Naga ethnic groups. They are found in Tirap, Longding, and Changlang districts of Arunachal Pradesh; Sibsagar District of Assam; and also in Myanmar. They are known in Arunachal Pradesh as the Wanchos ('Wancho' is a synonymous term for 'Konyak'). Ethnically, culturally, and linguistically the Noctes and Tangsa of the same neighbouring state of Arunachal Pradesh, are also closely related to the Konyaks. The Konyaks were the last among th ...
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Konyak Language
Konyak is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Konyak people of Nagaland, northeastern India. Dialects ''Ethnologue'' lists the following dialects of Konyak. Tableng is the standard dialect spoken in Wanching and Wakching. Phonology There are three lexically contrastive contour tones in Konyak – rising (marked in writing by an acute accent – á), falling (marked by a grave accent – à) and level (unmarked). Vowels The vowels , and are lengthened before approximants. doesn't occur finally. Consonants The stops and contrast with the aspirated and . and become voiced intervocalically across morpheme boundaries. The dental is realised as an alveolar if preceded by a vowel with a rising tone. The approximants Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do prod ...
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Ceremonial Basket Konyak Naga
A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion. The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin '' caerimonia''. Church and civil (secular) ceremonies According to Dally Messenger and Alain de Botton, in most Western countries the values and ideals articulated in both church and civil ceremonies are generally similar. The difference is in what Messenger calls the "supernatural infrastructure" or de Botton the "implausible supernatural element".Messenger, Dally; ''Murphy's Law and the Pursuit of Happiness: a History of the Civil Celebrant Movement'', Spectrum Publications, Melbourne (Australia), 2012 Most churches and religions claim some extra advantage conferred by the deity e.g. Roman Catholics believe that through the words of consecration in the mass ceremony, God himself becomes actually present on the altar. Both church and civil ceremonies share the powerful psycho ...
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Noke Wangnao
Noke Wangnao (1937 – 28 August 2023), also known as Papa Noke, was an Indian politician from Nagaland. He was elected to the Nagaland Legislative Assembly nine times from the Tapi Assembly constituency in 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1989, 2003, 2013, 2018, and 2023. He had served as minister of various departments in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly and also as an advisor for social welfare to the chief minister of Nagaland. Death Wangnao died at Chümoukedima Chümoukedima (), formerly spelled Chumukedima, is a municipality in the Chümoukedima District of the Indian state of Nagaland. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in Nagaland after Dimapur and Kohima. Chümoukedima was designated as th ...'s Christian Institute of Health Sciences and Research on 28 August 2023, at the age of 86. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wangnao, Noke 1937 births 2023 deaths Naga people Nagaland MLAs 1974–1975 Nagaland MLAs 1977–1982 Nagaland MLAs 1982–1987 Nagaland MLAs 198 ...
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Phangnon Konyak
S. Phangnon Konyak is an Indian politician from Nagaland. She is the State President of BJP Mahila Morcha, Nagaland. In March 2022, she became the first woman to be elected as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Nagaland and the second woman from the State to be elected to either House of the Parliament or the State Assembly. Biography She did her schooling from Holy Cross Higher Secondary School, Dimapurbr>She holds a master's degree in English Literature from Daulat Ram College (University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...) (Batch of 2002) and has been involved in student activism and social organization References Living people People from Nagaland Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Nagaland Rajya Sabha members from Nagaland Women me ...
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Tobu (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Tobu Assembly constituency is one of the 60 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Nagaland state in India. It is part of Mon District and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results Assembly Election 2023 Assembly Election 2018 Assembly Election 2013 Assembly Election 2008 Assembly Election 2003 Assembly Election 1998 Assembly Election 1993 Assembly Election 1989 Assembly Election 1987 Assembly Election 1982 Assembly Election 1977 Assembly Election 1974 See also * List of constituencies of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly * Mon district Mon District (Pron:/mɒn/) is a district of Nagaland, a state in India. It is the third-largest district in Nagaland in terms of area. The district has a population of 250,260 people. Mon Town is the headquarters of the district. History Afte ... ...
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Chingwang Konyak
Chingwang Konyak (born 24 April 1943) is an Indian politician from Nagaland. He represented Nagaland constituency in the Indian Parliament. Currently, Konyak is the president of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party. Political career He started his career with Nagaland Nationalist Organisation but Indian National Congress in June 1976. He was Minister of State, Nagaland for Veterinary, Animal Husbandry and Jails, from 1969 to 1971. He was promoted as Cabinet Minister for Tuensang Affairs, Excise and Relief and Rehabilitation, from 1971 to 1974. In 1969, he held the portfolio of the state Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary in Hokishe Sema's cabinet. Subsequently, he was the Minister for Tuensang Affairs in the state cabinet. Member of Parliament In 1979, while holding the Vice President position of the Nagaland Congress Committee, Konyak resigned from the Indian National Congress. The following day, he was nominated as the consensus candidate of the opposi ...
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Sino-Tibetan
Sino-Tibetan, also cited as Trans-Himalayan in a few sources, is a family of more than 400 languages, second only to Indo-European in number of native speakers. The vast majority of these are the 1.3 billion native speakers of Chinese languages. Other Sino-Tibetan languages with large numbers of speakers include Burmese (33 million) and the Tibetic languages (6 million). Other languages of the family are spoken in the Himalayas, the Southeast Asian Massif, and the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Most of these have small speech communities in remote mountain areas, and as such are poorly documented. Several low-level subgroups have been securely reconstructed, but reconstruction of a proto-language for the family as a whole is still at an early stage, so the higher-level structure of Sino-Tibetan remains unclear. Although the family is traditionally presented as divided into Sinitic (i.e. Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman branches, a common origin of the non-Sinitic languages has n ...
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Sal Languages
The Sal languages are a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeast India, parts of Bangladesh, and Burma. Alternative names ''Ethnologue'' calls the group "Jingpho–Konyak–Bodo", while Scott DeLancey (2015) refers to it as "Bodo-Konyak-Jinghpaw" (BKJ). Glottolog lists this branch as Brahmaputran (brah1260). Classification within Sino-Tibetan Scott DeLancey (2015)DeLancey, Scott. 2015. "Morphological Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan)." ''Cahiers de linguistique - Asie oriental'' 44(2):122-149. December 2015. considers the Sal languages, which he refers to as ''Bodo-Konyak-Jinghpaw'' (BKJ), to be part of a wider Central Tibeto-Burman group. Internal classification noted that the Bodo–Garo, Konyak, and Jingpho (Kachin) languages, as well as the extinct Chairel language, shared distinctive roots for "sun" and "fire". proposed a grouping of the Bodo–Garo, Konyak (Northern Naga), and Jingpho languages, characterized by severa ...
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Northern Naga
The Konyak languages, or alternatively the Konyakian or Northern Naga languages, is a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken by various Naga peoples in southeastern Arunachal Pradesh and northeastern Nagaland states of northeastern India. They are not particularly closely related to other Naga languages spoken further to the south, but rather to other Sal languages such as Jingpho and the Bodo-Garo languages. There are many dialects, and villages even a few kilometers apart frequently have to rely on a separate common language. Proto-Northern Naga, the reconstructed proto-language of the Konyak languages, has been reconstructed by Walter French (1983). Languages Konyak–Chang: * Konyak * Chang * Wancho * Phom *Khiamniungic ** Khiamniungan ** Leinong ** Makyam **Ponyo Tangsa–Nocte *Tangsa (Tase) **Muklom **Pangwa Naga **Ponthai **Tikhak *Nocte The Nocte are an ethnic Naga people, Naga tribe primarily living in Arunachal. They number about 111,679 (Census 2011), mainly f ...
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Aoleang
''Aoleang Monyü'' or simply ''Aoleang'' is a festival celebrated by the Konyak Naga people and is held in the first week of April mainly in the Mon District of the Indian state of Nagaland. The Konyak people are the largest of 17 officially recognized tribes in Nagaland and are the most well known due to their past tradition of head hunting. The Konyak people are found in the Mon region of Nagaland and in neighboring Myanmar making these places the best to witness the Aoleang Festival. Konyak Naga people can be identified by their tattoo faces and they mostly known for their headhunters past. The f estival is one of the most important festival from other festivals. The Aoleang celebrates the arrival of spring and prays for a good upcoming harvest. The celebrations are held in the first week of April and coincide with the start of the Konyak New Year. However, dates can change as the festival is celebrated in villages across the district with no defined schedule. You have to as ...
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Nagaland
Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital city is Kohima and its largest city is Dimapur. The state has an area of with a population of 1,980,602 as per the 2011 Census of India, making it one of the smallest states in India.Census of India 2011
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Nagaland became the 16th state of India on 1 December 1963. It is home to a rich variety of natural, cultural and environmental resources. Nagaland is a mountainous state and lies between the parallels of 95 and 94 degrees east longitude and 25.2 and 27.0 degrees latitude north. The high-profile
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Konyak may refer to: * Konyak people, of Nagaland, Northeast India * Konyak language, the Tibeto-Burman language they speak * Konyak languages, a Tibeto-Burman linguistic subgroup * P. Paiwang Konyak, Indian politician See also * Cognac Cognac ( , also , ) is a variety of brandy named after the Communes of France, commune of Cognac, France. It is produced in the surrounding wine-growing region in the Departments of France, departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime. Cog ... * Konjak {{Disambig ...
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