A Nostalgic Small Piece of Zolai Grammar
By Taang Zomi
Today (19 APR 08 SAT), I looked for and found a brief piece of writing on Tedim Zolai grammar, which I wrote way back in 1996 (some twelve years ago).
In 1996, I began a newsletter-cum-mailing list, called The TBC (The Thang Bawi Communique, (http://web.archive.org/web/19991011083218/private.fuller.edu/~pthang/tbc1.html), which was a precursor of Zomi International Network (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zomi) and other yahoogroups and googlegroups.
In March 1996, I began the first-ever Zomi websiste (The Thang Bawi Home Page, (http://private.fuller.edu/~pthang).
This webpage is no longer valid, but most – but not all – of it is archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991010190932/private.fuller.edu/~pthang/
During 1996, Thuah Aung (Wilfred Bening), a famous singer and computer software programmer, also had his webpage (Rammawi Home Page
(http://adams.patriot.net/~premil/rammawi.html), which was the third or fourth webpage after mine.
He sent us a list of sentences in English to be translated into Tedim, Falam, Hakha, Matu, Mara, Cho, etc.
He translated it into Falam. I translated it into Tedim. He put our translations on his webpage.
Today, I looked for his webpage, and found out that the webpage no longer existed. I looked for the webpage on the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/), but it was not there.
I remember that Dr. Vum Son put my translation on his webpage (Information Central for topics related to Zo Re-unification and Democracy and Federalism in Burma, (http://home.us.net/~suantak). When I tried to go there, I found out that the webpage was no longer in existence. I went to the Internet Archive, and fortunately the archive of the webpage is still there:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031008112250/home.us.net/~suantak/
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