Thursday, June 25, 2009

A Nostalgic Small Piece of Zolai Grammar (page 2)

page 2

(continued from page 1)


Fortunately, my translation is still there:


In 1995-1996, I used Eudora Light 1.x for Macintosh (see http://www.eudora.com) as my main POP3 email client, which was plain text only (that is, it did not have RTF or HTML format). At that time web-based email (such as Hotmail or Yahoo Mail) was un-heard of. I used Monaco (fixed, monospaced font) 9 points when I wanted to write columnar tables, and Palatino (proportional font) 12 points when I wrote academic papers. (I used Micosoft Word 5.1 for formal writing.)

Now that I use Windows operating system, I use Outlook Express 6 (both plain text and HTML) as one of my POP3 email clients. For tabulation, I use Courier New (fixed, monospaced font) 10 points in place of Monaco, and for academic papers, I use Times New Roman 12 points in place of Palatino. (Actually, I now use OpenOffice.org Writer 2.41 to create tables.)

There have been lots of changes within 12 years!

With a deep feeling of nostalgia, I hereby reproduce my small piece of writing on Tedim Zolai grammar.

We Zomis have not yet had a good, reliable grammar book. We are still in the process of developing grammar and a grammar book.

I look forward to comments from my readers.

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Please read the whole paper on the following site:


Or, if you cannot get there, try this:



== xxooxx==



A Nostalgic Small Piece of Zolai Grammar (page 1)

Saturday, April 19, 2008


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This webpage is no longer valid, but most – but not all – of it is archived here: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/


continued on page 2

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Zomi National Day: How to Count It


Zomi National Day: How to Count It


Most of us tend to count our Zomi National Day wrongly. 20 FEB 08 WED was the most recent of our National Day.

Was it the 60th Time Zomi National Day [A 60 Veina Zomi Nam Ni; A Kyein Chauk-se Myauk Zo-mi A-myo-tha Nay]?

Or was it the 61st Time Zomi National Day [A 61 Veina Zomi Nam Ni; Chauk-se-tit Kyein Myauk Zo-mi A-myo-tha Nay]?

Or was it the 60th Anniversary of Zomi National Day [Kum 60 Cin'na Zomi Nam Ni; A Hnit Chauk-se Myauk Zo-mi A-myo-tha Nay]?

You need to take pen and paper, write the dates down, and do your counting.

If you are too busy or too lazy to do that, here is a document that does the counting for you:

http://zomitaktak.googlepages.com/ZND-OFA.pdf

You can print it out and do your own counting.





Thursday, March 13, 2008

In How Many States of the US Do Zomis Live?

In How Many States of the US Do Zomis Live?

It seems that Zomis reside permanently or at least transiently in 41 states and one special district of the United States:

01 Alabama
02 Alaska
03 Arizona
04 Arkansas
05 California
06 Colorado
07 Delaware
08 Florida
09 Georgia
10 Hawaii
11 Idaho
12 Illinois
13 Indiana
14 Iowa
15 Kansas
16 Kentucky
17 Louisiana
18 Maryland
19 Massachusettes
20 Michigan
21 Minnesota
22 Mississippi
23 Missouri
24 Montana
25 Nebraska
26 Nevada
27 New Jersey
28 New Mexico
29 New York
30 North Carolina
31 Ohio
32 Oklahoma
33 Oregon
34 Pennsylvania
35 Rhode Island
36 South Carolina
37 Tennessee
38 Texas
39 Utah
40 Virginia
41 Washington
42 District of Columbia (not a state)

Zomis who live in other territories of the United States do not have access to our Blog:

43 Guam (not a state)

So Zomis reside in 41 states and 2 territories? I am not sure. What I am sure of is that Zomis reside in at least 35 states and 2 territories.

In How Many Countries Do Zomis Live? [Contd.]

[continued from the previous post]

21 New Zealand (Australia)
22 Norway (Europe)
23 Philippines (Asia)
24 Portugal (Europe)
25 Romania (Europe)
26 Russia (Europe)
27 Singapore (Asia)
28 Spain (Europe)
29 Sri Lanka
30 Sweden (Europe)
31 Switzerland
32 Thailand (Asia)
33 Turkey (Asia)
34 Ukraine (Europe)
35 United Kingdom (Europe)
36 United States (North America)

Zomis who live in these countries do not access our Blog:

37 Bangladesh (Asia)
38 Fiji (Asia)
39 Federated States of Micronesia (Asia)
40 Palau (Asia)
41 Union of South Africa (Africa)

So, Zomis reside in 41 countries? Maybe or maybe not. I am not sure about Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, et cetera.

In How Many Countries Do Zomis Live?

In How Many Countries Do Zomis Live?

According to the statistics of Zomi Taktak Blog (http://zomitaktak.blogspot.com/), it seems that Zomis reside permanently or at least transiently in 36 countries in 5 continents:

01 Australia (Australia)
02 Brazil (South America)
03 Bulgaria (Europe)
04 Candada (North America)
05 Chile (South America)
06 Denmark (Europe)
07 Finland (Europe)
08 France (Europe)
09 Germany (Europe)
10 Hong Kong (Asia)
11 India (Asia)
12 Israel (Asia)
13 Italy (Europe)
14 Japan (Asia)
15 South Korea (Asia)
16 Malaysia (Asia)
17 Mexico (North America)
18 Morocco (Africa)
19 Myanmar (Asia)
20 Netherlands (Europe)

[continued to the next post]

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Photo #B-19



Photo #B-19
Lia [ ] (left) and Lia Huai Sian Hung (right) singing

Photo #B-18



Photo #B-18
Taang Pau Sian Lian (Taang Lianbawi) jubilantly singing

Photo #B-17



Photo #B-17
Lia [ ] singing

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Photo #B-16
Taang [ ] singing

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Photo #B-15
Lia Huai Sian Hung singing

Photo #B-14



Photo #B-14
Taang John Thangpi singing

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Photo #B-13
Lia [ ] singing

Photo #B-12




Photo #B-12

Taang [ ] (front left) and Taang [ ] (front right) singing, while Taang Mungpi is playing on his guitar and Taang Mungtawng beating on his drums.