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Title Galang byin ai lagawn ma (The lazy child who became an eagle) with English translation
Description Translation (Rita Seng Mai)
In March or April, I am going to talk about children who don't listen to their parents. This is about how parents teach them. In our highland areas, we clean the fields or farms every year. There was a family with a son in a village. It was really sunny that day. The mother was thirsty. She was really thirsty. When they burned the grass and weeds, she got thirsty because of the hot temperature. So she called her son, "My son, come here. Go and get some water from the stream for me, please." The son was lazy and didn't want to go under the sun, so he didn't get water for his mother. She felt upset and thought, "My son didn't get some water for me although I requested him." Soon, she got dehydrated and died there. Then, the son became an eagle and flew up into the sky. It flew up in the sky. He didn't have parents then. He said, "Mom, mom," and was flying in the sky. He had to suffer trouble because of his actions toward his mother. Nowadays, children don't want to do what their parents tell them to do. When someone says 'can you bring it to me?' or 'bring it to me,' the children will refuse to do it. Our children are like that. This story is to teach those types of children.

Transcription (La Ring)
Bai langai mi gaw hpabaw ta nga yang e ndai htaw March April hkan e i ndai kanu kawa nmadat ai kanu kawa e shangun ai nhkraw ai ma ni hpe tsun ai rai nga ai. Sharin shaga ai lam rai nga ai. Rai yang gaw anhte bum ga de gaw yi hkyen ai le i nam maling hpe e hpun kaba kran nam hkyen yi nat rai na yi hkyen ai. Rai yang gaw kasha la kasha langai mi ma lu ai da. Rai yang gaw e lani mi gaw jan grai kahtet ai kanu gaw hka grai lu mayu ai. Hka grai lu mayu na shi gaw grai hkraw taw nga le i wo mam nat kau ai yi dai kaw e she bungli galaw ai rai jang hka mung lu mayu ai kahtet ma grai kahtet ai. Re majaw kasha hpe e wo yi wa kaw nga taw nga ai ma hpe "Ma e nang de sa wa rit lo e nu hpe le hka shi kaw na hka naw ja jaw rit law" ngu ai da. Rai yang gaw kasha gaw jan ja mung nkam rai na lagawn ma lagawn re majaw e kanu hpe e hka nja jaw ai da. Hka nja jaw rai yang gaw kanu gaw grai yawn ai "Aw nye kasha hka ja jaw rit ngu ai wa hka nja jaw" rai yang gaw grai yawn sai shi a myit hta grai machyi sai l ei. Re majaw hka nlu lu nna dai kaw hkraw nna dai yi yang kaw e si mat ai da. Si mat rai yang gaw ma dai gaw hpabaw tai ai i nga yang gaw galang tai mat ai. Galang tai mat rai na shi gaw htaw pyen rai na ntsa de dai hku pyen hkawm mat wa rai yanga gaw e kanu gaw si mat sai nnga sai kanu ma nnga sai kawa ma nnga sai. Rai yang gaw shi gaw pyen mat wa ai pyen mat wa rai yang gaw shi mung htaw ntsa kaw na "Nu e nu e" nga na pyen gawoi hkawm ai le angwi sha ning rai na pyen gawoi hkawm ai. E dai gaw kanu a karai lu ai re da. Dai kanu a karai lu ai re majaw gaw daini na anhte a kashu kasha ni gaw kadai a kashu kasha ni raitim "Ma dai la su wora la su" ngu yang "E nkam ai law shing re law ning re law" e nga di i ningdang nna ngalaw ya ai grai nga ai anhte ni a kashu kasha ni le. Dai majaw ma ni hpe sharin ai maumwi rai sai dai gaw.
Origination date 2017-02-02
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/KK1/0418
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Collector
Keita Kurabe
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Myanmar - MM
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Language as given Jinghpaw
Subject language(s)
Jingpho - kac
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Content language(s)
Jingpho - kac
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Dialect Standard Jinghpaw
Region / village Northern Myanmar
Originating university Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Data Categories primary text
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles Keita Kurabe : depositor
N. Naw Ja : speaker
DOI 10.4225/72/598895455e917
Cite as Keita Kurabe (collector), Keita Kurabe (depositor), N. Naw Ja (speaker), 2017. Galang byin ai lagawn ma (The lazy child who became an eagle) with English translation. EAF+XML/MPEG/VND.WAV. KK1-0418 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/72/598895455e917
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KK1-0418-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 91.9 MB 00:02:46.784
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Collection Information
Collection ID KK1
Collection title Kachin folktales told in Jinghpaw
Description Recordings of Kachin folktales and related narratives in Jinghpaw. These materials were collected by Keita Kurabe, Gumtung Lu Awng, Sumdu Ja Seng Roi, Hpauhkum Htu Bu, Labang Tu La, Gumtung Htu Nan, and Lashi Seng Nan as part of community-based collaborative fieldwork in northern Myanmar. A total of 2,491 stories with 2,481 ELAN files, 2,481 transcriptions, and 1,369 translations are currently available (March 25, 2024). Transcriptions were contributed by Gumtung Lu Awng, Pausa La Ring, Galang Lu Hkawng, Sumdu Ja Seng Roi, Hpauhkum Htu Bu, and Keita Kurabe. Stories were translated by Nbanpa Rita Seng Mai, Sumlut Gun Mai, Lazing Htoi San, Maran Seng Pan, Dumdaw Mike Tu Awng, Nhkum Htoi Awng, and Keita Kurabe.

Animated stories are available at:

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/KK3
https://www.youtube.com/@kachinfolktales
https://www.facebook.com/KachinStories

Other Kachin culture and history are available at:

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/KK2

Our research was made possible under the support of JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H04523, JP20K13024, JP20H01256, Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3) from Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), and JSPS Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers "A collaborative network for usage-based research on lesser-studied languages."
Countries
Myanmar - MM
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Languages
Jingpho - kac
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