Gyani Maiya
No community can express the pain of losing an elder, especially when one was presumed to be the last fluent speaker of their language and the language is nearing endangerment.
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“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married in villages. It should be taught to children”. — Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) was a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and other barriers to active use. The community also lost their 83-year-old elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, the most and the only known fluent Kusunda speaker then. Filmed in Kulmor in the Dang District in 2018, this openly-licensed documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words and a biography of her people who were forced to leave their language and cultural identity. Kusunda is being revived by Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister, and Uday Raj Aaley, a local researcher who is the key interviewer for this film.
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Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda
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Uday Raj Aaley
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Sanjib Chaudhary
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Frequently Asked Questions
Gyani Maiya was released on December 10, 2019.
The runtime of Gyani Maiya is 25m.
Gyani Maiya is a Documentary movie.
Gyani Maiya has a rating of 10.0 out of 10 on TMDB.
Gyani Maiya is available to watch. Check streaming platforms and theaters near you.
Gyani Maiya was directed by Subhashish Panigrahi.
The main cast of Gyani Maiya includes Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda, Uday Raj Aaley, Sanjib Chaudhary.
Gyani Maiya is originally in English.