Lungtang tunga kigelh Lai ~ Rev. Khoi Lam Thang
Thu konghong :: “Lungtang tunga kigelh LAI” cih i thulu ahi hi. Ei Khristiante’ Pasian pen `LAI’ Pasian ahi hi. Amah mah in laigelh (Pai 24:12, Jer 31:33, Dan 5:5, 2Korin 3:3) a, midangte zong lai gelh dingin sawl (Jer 36:2, Mang 3:14, 9:19, 21:5) hi. A thute `Lai’ a ciapteh ding deihin thupha pia hi (Mang 1:3). Hi zaha Pasian in thupisa-in thupha a piak `Lai’ Zomite in i neih kipatna tangthu le tua `LAI’ lungtang tungah a kigelhzia ding thulu thumin khenin sut dih ni.
A. COPE KHAN MA
A. (1) Zomite in ‘Lai’ nei lo ngei lo hi hang
Zomite in nidang sawtpi lai-in “LAI” nei ngei khin napi, savun tungah kigelh-a, Go Cin in nisa ah a pho leh ui-in na neksak ahih manin, lai a nei nawnlo ihi hi, cih tangthu i nei hi. Lai nei lo ngei lo hi hang. Nei ngei in a nei lokik ihi hi. Lungtang tungah kigelh lo-a, savun tung bekah kigelh ahih manin ui in hong neksak ahi hi.
A. (2) Pau Cin Hau’ Lai
Zogam tualsuak LAI hi a, Zotual Lai zong kici hi. Pu Pau Cin Hau in 1888-1902 kikal a dam loh hun sungin mangmuhna tawh Pasian kiang pan a ngah ahi hi. Tua manin “Laipianpa” min ngah lawh hi. Laimal 1050 pha a, awmal khat laimal khat ahi hi. La banga kisa diatdiat bu 61 pha-in, a bu simin a dawng a dawng2 in kikhen thuap lai hi. Zolai i neih ma-in mi masate in hih lai na zang uh hi. Pasian in Laipianpa tunga, a piak `LAI’ pen theihhuai, kephuai, sinhuai hi.
1930 kumin Pau Cin Hau’ lai tawh `Mualtung thuhilhna’ kikhen khia hi. Tua `LAI’ pen Laipianpa’ ngah `Lai’ hi lo hi. A khuanung pian `LAI’3 ahi hi.
A. (3) Zolai
Roman Alphabet (Mikang laimal) kizang Zolai pen Mangtual lai zong kici hi. Zomite lak-ah Tedim kampaute `Lai’ nei masa pen ihi kei hi. 1841 kumin Khumi lai, 1852 kumin Mara lai, 1857 kumin Kuki lai, 1865 kumin Asho lai, 1874 kumin Mizo lai, 1891 kumin Sihzang lai, 1894 kumin Khalkha4 lai na om khin hi. Carsonte nupa Khamtung hong tun ciangin, a omsa Khalkha lai puah uh-a, a lawmpa laisiam (Linguist) Tilbe zong kihuhsak hi. Ahi zongin Cope topa Khamtung gam hong tun (1908) hun ciangciang Zolai gelhdan5 ngeina kip kinei cian nai lo hi.
Tua hun lai-in Lusei gamah Lusei lai kilimzat mahmah khin-a, Tedim gam dong hong kizelsuk ngei hi. A sim ciangin e, bi, si kici loin, a, aw, bi, caw kici hi. Tua Lusei Zolai theih ol-in nitak sagih bangin siam uh ahih manin ni sagih lai na ci uh hi. Mualleguam lupzia zuiin Khuakhang lai zong a ci-om a, Aizawl lai zong kici hi.
B. COPE KHAN SUNG
B. (1) Zolai kip hong bawlsak
Cope topa in a omsa laigelhdan tuamtuamte enkak-in, Khamtung gambup in a zattang theih ding, laigelhdan kip hong bawlsak hi. Tua ahih manin `tang kam’ (common language) i neihzawh nai loh hangin `tang lailung’ (common orthography) i nei hi. Falam, Khalkha, Tedim le Mizo dongin i lai oltakin kisimsak thei hi hang. Tua bang lailung pen Cope topa in a omsate hong lepsak ahi hi. Ahih hangin a omsa Zolaite tawh kilamdang hi. Zo pau pen `awsang awniam’ nei kampau namte (tonal language) ahi hi. Ahih hangin tua awsang awniam lahnate (Diacretical marks) om lo hi. Zo awsuah (phonetics) tawh a kinai thei pen dingin Roman alphabet zangin hong bawlsak ahi hi.
B. (2) Zolai a kip na’ng hong zunsak
Ahih hangin tua `lai’ pen thakhat thu-in a hoihpah a kippah hilo hi. Cope topa in a sih dong mah a puahpuah a zunzun hi-a, a hoihzaw a kipzaw dingin laih toto hi. Tua banga a puah tohtohzia, 1919 pan 1938 sung THE CHIN HILLS NEWS (Tunung ciangin CHN ci-in tomlak ding) sung siksan in kimu thei hi. Thu nih siksan in en leeng:
B. (2) a. Laimal gawmzia
Min (proper name) gelhdan bek siksanin en leng zong a nuaia bangin a khelkhelna a puahpuahna kimu thei hi. Tu ni dong i buaipih lai `Jesuh’ le `Khrih’ mah zong a kikhel mun pen kammal ahi hi.
- Khrih = 1919 kumin Kaji, 1921 kumin Khaji, 1921 kumin Khazhi, 1927 kumin Khazih
- Jesuh = 1919 kumin Jeshu, 1920 kumin Jesu, 1923 kumin Zheishu, 1925 kumin Zeishu, 1927 kumin Zisu, 1929 kumin Zeisu
- Pasian = 1919 kumin Pashian, 1924 kumin Pasian
- Leitung = 1919 kumin Letung, 1923 kumin leitung
- Tapidaw = 1919 kumin Tawpido, 1921 kumin Tapidaw, 1922 kumin Tapidaw
- Inn = 1919 kumin in, 1920 kumin inn
- Yangon = 1919 kumin Zangvung,1923 kumin Zangun
B. (2) b. Lusei (Mizo) lai gelhzia zong etteh ngei
Lailam ah Zomite sangin a khangto masa zaw Luseite (Mizo) laigelhzia ettehin na puah hi. Khalkhate Sayakyi Bawi Hu in “Cope topa in Luseite Haudala6 kiang pan Zolai gelhdan sin hi” ci hi. Tua ban-ah “Lunglei lam pan Tahan hong lal suk Pu Tuah Hrang kiang panin zong Cope topa in Lusei lai tampi theihbeh hi” kici hi. Lusei laigelhzia etteh a Zolai a puahzia CHN-1921, November kha sungah;
“Tunung ciangin Khamtung lai a ki-at ciangin, Lusei ngeina a kizui ding hi. A tawp lam a awsau a hihleh, tuma lam a, a ki-at mah bangin, a ki-at lai ding hi.”na kici hi. Tua hun a kipanin Zolai malgawmna ah, ingh, langh, cingh, cihte kizang pah hi. Tuni dong mah a zangzang om lai hi. CHN-1928, April sungah, laigelhdan puahna om leuleu a, “Mi kimkhat in s, sh, z, zh a kizangna ding a theikei uh hi. Hi bangin a kizang hi. a, e, o, aw a mai lamah s, leh z, a ki-at hi. Ahih hangin, ei, i, u, mailam ah, ~~, zh, a ki-at ding hi. A masa in J a ki-at hi. Ahih hangin a nung ciangin J a ki-at nawn kei hi. Zh a ki-at ding hi. Banghang hiam cihleh Lusei ngeina tawh a kituak zaw hi” kici hi. Tua manin 1923 kumin Jesuh kammal pen Zisu hi loin Zheishu na kici hi.
B. (3) A bawlsa lai a kip nang hanciam hi.
1922 kum Maymyo ah Zolai tanli sang neih ding a kivaihawm lai-in, Mikang kumpi in Laisiampa (Linguist) khat tungtawn laigelhzia thak khat zat ding gel hi. Hih thu-ah Cope topa lungkim lo hi. Ngaihsutna kituak lo ahih manin, a zat ding lailung khensat zo lo uh hi. Cope topa in:
“Hih laigelhzia thak tawh Khamtung gamah lai kisin leh Kawlgam a om Zomite pen Mizo gam le Meitei gam a om a sanggamte uh tawh kigamla semsem ding hi,” na ci hi. Tua hangin 1925 kum ciangin Cope topa’ lai, Zolai tanli sangah kizang a, tu-in simlemal, Kawlgam Vaigam a om Zomi kici khempeuh in lai kibang a zang ihi hi. Ei Tedim kampau Zomite a ding bek hi loin, Falam kam, Khalkha kam le Chinbok (Mindatte) kam tawh `Lai sinbu’ na bawlsak hi.
C. COPE KHAN NUNG
C. (1) Kum 100 a cing hi ta!
Cope topa in 1913 kumin a masa pen Zolai simbu hong bawlsak hi. Cope topa hong patsak laigelhzia paipi zui-in kum 100 a kalsuan ta ihi hi. Kipuah toto a, tu dong mah a kipuahpuah lai ahi hi. Kampau nungta khat ahih leh a kampau le a lai kipuah toto a ngeina ahi hi. 1914 kum in “Tedim Labu” a masapen hong bawlsak hi. A hunhun in hong puahsak toto a, (1918, 1923) a sih dong 3 vei na bawl man hi. Tu in a 8 vei puahkikna ciang i tun ta hi. 1913 kum in Matthai Lai Siangtho tei na kipan hi. 1932 kum in Thuciam Thak Lai Siangtho tei na zosianga, British and Foreign Bible Society in na khen hi. Cope topa maban kizom toto a, 1977 kum in India pan kikhen Lai Siangtho, 1982 kumin Tedim ah a ki-ap Lai Siangtho i nei hi.
SIL a pankhia Cameron Townsend in “Nusungsuah pau tawh a kitei Lai Siangtho pen sangmang hoih penpen ahi hi. Cikmah ciang innlam vil-a ciah pak cih lah om lo, khualtang ngei lo hi” a cih mah bangin Tedim (Kamhau) Lai Siangtho hangin Cope topa ei gam ah hong tengden ta hi.
C. (2) Puahpuah zunzun ding Zolai:
“Zolai gelhzia a kip om nai lo hi” a ci makai pawlkhat om hi. Ataktak-in kip khin hi. A hunhun a i puah zelzel pen a kip man hizaw hi. Minam khangto, kampau nungta i hih leh i pau i lai dinkhawl ngeilo ding hi. Puahpuah zunzun kisam hi. Zomite mai ah kum 1000 val a khangto masa zaw Kawlte in zong a laigelhdan uh a hunhunin puahpuah lai uh hi.
Hih in khantohna lim, nuntakna lim ahi hi. Laimal gawmzia ahih leh a hunhun in kipuah hi. A hoihzaw ding a om leh puahpuah lai ding ahi hi. Tua ahih manin Zolai gelhzia a hoih zaw semsem dingin i puah ding hi. Zo kammal thak gel committee cih khawng, Zolai gelhzia seminar cih khawng i neih zelzel ding leh i puah tohtoh ding ahi hi. Khang masate7 in na puah uh hi. Khang laite in puah ding hi hang. Khang sawnte in zong na puahpuah lai ding a, tua bangin i pau i lai nungta paisuak ding hi.
C. (3) Zolai Kepsiam Ni:
Rev Dr J.H Cope in hong puah hong zunsak i Zolai kepsiam mahmah ding kisam hi. Savun tawh laigelh hun hinawn lo hi. Ahih hangin ui in hong neksak thei lai ding ahih manin lungtang tungah gelh ding ahi hi. Tua ahih manin:
C. (3)a Zomi a piang Zolai siam ding
Hun saupi lai-a kipanin Zogam sung sangte ah Zolai hong sinsak nawnlo mah ahih manin khangthakte in Zolai kithei nawnlo tamawk hi. Tua bang ding mah a kivaihawm ahi hi. Zolai Zopau a man leh Zomi a beibei ta cihna ahi hi. Zomi ihih nak leh Zolai i theihkul hi. I Theih nadingin i sin kul hi. Kumpi sangte ah kisin nawnlo ahih manin, biakna lampan hanciamin sin ding ahi hi. Kumsimin Zolai sinna neih den ding kisam-a, a phamawh thu ahi hi. Khangthakte kum khat i hilh kei leh khang khat kizekai ding hi. Mai lamah Zolai simbu tan 4 pan kibehlap toto dinga, tan 10 sin theihna, degree lak theihna ciang hanciam ding hi hang.
C. (3)b Zokhua cin ah Laibusaal nei ding
Cope kum 1oo Jubilee khit ciangin Pawlpi (ahih kei leh Khua) ciat ah laibusaal (Library) khat ciat neih sawm dih ni. Tua laibusaal ah Zokam tawh a kihawm lai peuhmah koih kim ding hi hang. Tua bangah leitung thu vantung thu a kingah bangbang sim theih dingin koih ding ahi hi8. Koikoi om ta leng i thuzak, i thutheih kibat kim ding thupi hi. Khantoh manawh khangthakte in za lo, thei lo cih a om loh nadingin Zotate in hanciam ding hi hang.
C. (g)c Zotate in Lai Siangtho sim ding
Lungtang tunga kigelh ding a thupi pen `Lai’ in Pasian kammal Lai Siangtho ahi hi. Kha nuntak nading le leitung nuntak nadingin kicing hi. Pasian kammal simin simsim simsim ding hi hang. Nisimin sim ding hi a, nuntakpih ding zong ahi hi. Khristiante’ i neihsun galhiam ahi hi.
Tua banah Lai Siangtho pen Zolai simin sim dih ni. I Lai Siangtho sunga Zolai gelhzia pen etteh taak cing hi. A kicinlohna pawl khat om hi. Ahih hangin a hoihna tengteng lasiam leeng, Lai Siangtho tungtawnin Zolai siam theih luat hi. Tedim kampau tawh a kigelh laibu lak-ah a sah pen, a hoih pen, mitam in a sim pen laibu ahi hi.
Thukhupna
Lai kawi khat zong a thei lo Zomite uliante tawh hong tukhawmsak thei pen Pa Pasian hi-a, Tua Pasian itna le gupna tawh a kikhen thei lo dingin Zolai le Pilsinna hong luang khawm hi. Korin Lai Siangtho (2 Korin g) sunga kigelh Lungtang tunga kigelh lai pen
1 Hih bangin thu ka gen uh ciangin koleko a kiphattawm ka bang zel uh hiam? Midang pawlkhatte bangin note kiangah lah ding mihoih hihna lai ka kisam kei uh a, note in zong kote nong lah ding uh mihoih hihna lai a kisam na hi kei uh hi.
2 Note mahmah pen mihoih ka hihna uh lah nadingin kote’ lai na hi uh a, mi khempeuh in simin a theih nadingun kote’ lungtang tungah a kigelh lai na hi uh hi.
3 Hih lai pen Kh~ih mahmah in gelhin kote a hong puasak ahihna thu kitel mahmah hi. Laidal le suangpek tungah laitui le laikung tawh a kigelh hi lo a, mihing lungtang tungah a nungta Pasian Kha Siangtho tawh a kigelh ahi hi.
Cope Jubilee khit ciangin Zotate mihoih hihna lai a tuam kisam nawn loin, leitung in Pasian tate i hihna hong theih ding lunggulh huai ka sa hi. Zomi hihna `lai’ savun tungah laigelh nawn kei ni. Ui in hong neksak nuamin i kim i kiangah a gimnam diksa in vak kawiawi hi. Lungtang tungah a mang nawn lo dingin gelh ciat ni. Tua hileh kuamah in hong laksakm hong neksak zo nawn lo ding hi. Zota a kici khempeuh in Zolai Siamin, khuakim ah Cope phawkna Laibusaal hong ciat-in, Pasian kammal Lai Siangtho tawh kinahvawh den sawm leeng Kum 1oo cin Jubilee bawl man nei pen ding hi. Lungdam, Rev Khoi Lam Thang (Executive Secretary, Zomi Christian Literature Society (1996-1999), General Secretary, Bible Society of Myanmar (2010 pan)
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