Namyi Collection
Cambridge University
The 5,000 Namyi speak a Qiangic language, are classified as Tibetan, and mostly live in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, PR China. The first eleven audio tracks presented here include (1) a creation account, (2) a story of family clan formation, (3) a Namyi hero, (4) a religious specialist, (5) a story of seven daughters' adventures, (6) 'The Puppy and the Boy', (7) a tragedy involving a brother and a sister, (8) a hunting story, (9) a story of how people came to use tobacco, (10) two sisters' adventures with a monster, and (11) a story about a rabbit father-in-law and an orphan.The original materials were collected from Namyi tellers in Zhequ (Chinese: Dashui) Village and Mu'er Village, Lianhe Township, Mianning County. Libu Lakhi (Zla ba bstan 'dzin, Dawa Tenzin, Li Jianfu, Zachary) transcribed the original material into IPA and rerecorded the material, which is presented here. See Libu Lakhi, Brook Hefright, and Kevin Stuart. 2007. 'The Namuyi: Linguistic and