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Tedim
Tedim (, , (Tedim language, Zo: ''Tedim Khuapi'', pronounced ; is a town and the administrative seat of Tedim Township in Chin State, Myanmar. It is the second largest town in Chin State, after Hakha (the capital city of Chin State). The town's four major boroughs (''veng'') are: Sakollam, Myoma, Lawibual and Leilum. History The name "Tedim" was derived from a pool in the hills that used to twinkle in the sunlight. Therefore it was called ''te-dim'' (twinkling, shiny) in the local Tedim language (which is also called "Tedim pau"). As the Zomi lacked a formal writing system in the past, the story of Tedim mostly depends on oral tradition. Establishment of Tedim is ascribed to Gui Mang II, a powerful prince from the then ruling Guite people, Guite family in the region (c. 1600). However, due to the untimely death of Gui Lun (the fifth generation from Gui Mang II), Tedim was deserted for two generations. By the time of Pum Go, Tedim was reestablished as the political base of the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tedim Township
Tedim Township () is in Tedim District, Chin State of Myanmar (Burma). The administrative centre for the township is the town of Tedim. Tedim Township is the most populous township in Chin State, with a population of 87,623. Borders * Tonzang Township to the north; * Mizoram State of India to the west; * Falam Township to the south; * Kalay Township to the east. History Union of Burma On 12 February 1947, Pu Thawng Za Khup of Tedim from Chin Committee signed Panglong Agreement to formed a Union of Burma. Myanmar Civil War 2023 Taingen Skirmish Since 2022, the Tatmadaw has stationed troops in Taingen village in Tedim Township. Taingen is near the Indian border. According to Chin ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), junta troops had detained, raped and killed several villagers in Taingen. The camp is, according to members of the Chin National Army (CNA) interviewed by ''Myanmar Peace Monitor'', compact with "high-quality bunkers". On 11 July 2023, junta forces at Tainge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tedim District
Tedim District is a district in Chin State, Myanmar with a population of 117,393 (combining Tedim and Tonzang townships) according to the Myanmar Census 2014, making it the most populous district in Chin State. On 1 May 2022, Tedim District was formed with Tedim and Tonzang townships. Its district seat is Tedim. The major towns are Tedim, Tonzang, Cikha, and Khaikam. Townships Townships in Tedim District: * Tedim Township * Tonzang Township * Cikha Sub-township Borders Tedim District borders: * Manipur State of India to the north; * Mizoram State of India to the west; * Falam District of Chin State to the south; * Kalay District of Sagaing Division to the east. * Tamu District of Sagaing Division to the northeast. Festivals * Kum Thak (New Year's Day) * Zomi Nam Ni (Chin National Day) * Sial Sawm Pawi or Lawm Annek * Khuado Pawi * Lungdam Pawi (Merry Christmas) History On 12 February 1947, Pu Thawng Za Khup of Tedim from Chin Committee signed Panglong Agreement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guite People
Guite or Vuite is a clan of Kuki-Chin people in Northeast India and Myanmar. It is associated with Thadou-Kuki, Paite and Zou people. Guite was a ruling clan. Paite people, who generally adopted the identity of their ruling clan, were known as Guite people while under Guite chiefs. This practice has now ceased. Guite chiefs used to control large villages around Tedim (in Chin State of Myanmar). They shared the space with Suktes who were more dominant. After the rise of the Sukte chief Kam Hau, Guites had to move out. Some went north to settle near the border of Manipur and across into Manipur. Others settled in the northeast corner Mizoram. A chieftancy established at Mualpi had prominent quarrels with the state of Manpur, then a protectorate of British India. Adoption of the name According to Zam, Nigui Guite is the elder brother of the ancestral fathers of the Thadou people, namely Thangpi (great-grandfather of Doungel), Sattawng, and Neirawng. This genealogy was recen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tedim Language
The Tedim language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mostly in the southern Indo-Burmese border. It is the native language of the Tedim tribe of the Zomi people, and a form of standardized dialect merging from the Sukte and Kamhau dialects. It is a subject-object verb language, and negation follows the verb. It is mutually intelligible with the Paite language. History Zomi was the primary language spoken by Pau Cin Hau, a religious leader who lived from 1859 to 1948. He also devised a logographic and later simplified alphabetic script for writing materials in Zomi. Phonology The phonology of Zomi can be described as (C)V(V)(C)T order, where C represents a consonant, V represents a vowel, T represents a tone, and parentheses enclose optional constituents of a syllable. Consonants * Approximants , w The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chin State
Chin State (, ) is a state in western Myanmar. Chin State is bordered by Sagaing Division and Magway Division to the east, Rakhine State to the south, the Chattogram Division of Bangladesh to the west, and the Indian states of Mizoram to the west and Manipur to the north. The population of Chin State is about 488,801 according to the 2014 census, and its capital city is Hakha. The state is named after the Chin people, an ethnic group native to Chin State and neighboring Rakhine State. Much of the state is mountainous and sparsely populated, with few transportation links and low levels of economic development. It also has Myanmar's highest poverty rate, at 58%, according to a 2017 report. History Early history Situated in the remote hilly region of the Chin Hills, Chin State was traditionally autonomous and far from their neighboring powers like Burman kingdoms in the east and Indian states in the west to reach. Until the British advancement in the region, independent ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Burma
Districts (; ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Myanmar. They are the subdivisions of the administrative divisions of Myanmar, regions and states of Myanmar. Districts are in turn are subdivided into Townships of Myanmar, townships, then towns, wards and villages. Prior to 2022, there were 76 districts in Myanmar. The number of districts was expanded to a total of 121 on 30 April 2022 through Notification 319/2022 through 333/2022 under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar), Ministry of Home Affairs with the most new districts going to Shan State and Yangon Region. The district's role is more supervisory as the townships of Myanmar, townships are the basic administrative unit of local governance. A district is led by a district administrator, a civil servant appointed through the General Administration Department, General Administration Department (GAD) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar), Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA). The minister of ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writing System
A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a ''script'', as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language. The earliest writing appeared during the late 4th millennium BC. Throughout history, each independently invented writing system gradually emerged from a system of proto-writing, where a small number of ideographs were used in a manner incapable of fully encoding language, and thus lacking the ability to express a broad range of ideas. Writing systems are generally classified according to how its symbols, called ''graphemes'', relate to units of language. Phonetic writing systemswhich include alphabets and syllabariesuse graphemes that correspond to sounds in the corresponding spoken language. Alphabets use graphemes called ''letter (alphabet), letters'' that generally correspond to spoken phonemes. They are typically divided into three sub-types: ''Pure alphabets'' use letters to represent both consonant and vowel sounds, ''abjads'' gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rih Dil
Rih Dil () is a natural lake located in northwestern Chin State in Myanmar. It lies at about from Zokhawthar, the nearest village situated at an Indo-Burma border. It has a heart-shaped outline. It is about in length, in width, about in circumference and about in depth. Rih Dil occupies an important status in the traditional religion and narratives of the Chin people, which include the Zomi, Laimi, and Mizo. According to the ancestors of these tribes, the lake was a corridor to heaven called Pialral. All souls destined to Pialral must pass through the lake. Due to its cultural importance is often referred to as "the largest lake of Mizoram is Rih Dil, which is but in Burma (Myanmar)." History Mythological account The name of Rih Dil is said derived from a Mizo folktale of a girl named Rih-i. According to legend, Rih-i and her younger sister had a cruel stepmother, who persuaded their father to get rid of them. The father killed the younger sister in a forest. Upon fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Officer
The District Officer (abbreviated to D.O.), was a commissioned officer of one of the colonial governments of the British Empire, from the mid-1930s also a member of the Colonial Service of the United Kingdom, who was responsible for a District of one of the overseas territories of the Empire. Role The district officer was an administrator and often also a magistrate and was the link between the professional and technical services of the colonial government and the people of his district. He was at the heart of colonial administration throughout most of the British Empire, although not in British India, where the same functions were carried out by members of the Indian Civil Service, nor in the self-governing Dominions.Anthony Kirk-Greene, ''On Crown Service: A History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837-1997'' (London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1999) District Officers wore uniforms, according to the climate, but their formal tunic with gold braid was usually reserved for ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oral Tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.Jan Vansina, Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (1985), reported statements from present generation which "specifies that the message must be oral statements spoken, sung or called out on musical instruments only"; "There must be transmission by word of mouth over at least a generation". He points out, "Our definition is a working definition for the use of historians. Sociologists, linguists or scholars of the verbal arts propose their own, which in, e.g., sociology, stresses common knowledge. In linguistics, features that distinguish the language from common dialogue (linguists), and in the verbal arts features of form and content that define art (folklorists)."Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: "Methodology and African Pre-history", 1990, ''UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest. The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city is Yangon (formerly Rangoon). Early civilisations in the area included the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Myanmar and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Myanmar. In the 9th century, the Bamar people entered the upper Irrawaddy River, Irrawaddy valley, and following the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in the 1050s, the Burmese language and Culture of Myanmar, culture and Buddhism in Myanmar, Theravada Buddhism slowly became dominant in the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
