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Elicitation of sentences in various moods
Recording of an elicitation about modal operations in Mankiyali. The goal is to determine how the language distinguishes a speaker's certainty or belief of what will happen in a given situation. English sentences are used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
November 22, 2019
Creator:
Paramore, Jonathan Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of imperatives and other sentence types
Recording of an elicitation of imperatives and other sentence types in Mankiyali. The imperative, negative imperative, and present habitual forms were elicited using English sentences as prompts. Quantifiers are also elicited in this session. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
October 11, 2019
Creator:
Accord, Levi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of transitive sentences
Recording of an elicitation of transitive sentences, i.e., sentence with multiple noun phrases as arguments. Sentence prompts are provided in English and the native speakers give the Mankiyali equivalents. The contributing native speakers are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
October 16, 2019
Creator:
Mortensen, Jessica
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of noun forms
Recording of an elicitation of noun forms based on number and gender to demonstrate the Mankiyali lexical stress patterns in various word forms. In this elicitation, the native speaker, Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher), provides the English word as a prompt and another native speaker, Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) provides the Mankiyali equivalent of that word.
Date:
February 15, 2021
Creator:
Aurangzeb
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of a love story about Yusuf Khan and Sher Bano
This is a retelling of a love story of Yousaf Khan and Sher Bano by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). Abdul Qayoum (a 60-year old male) is the listener in this recording. Native speakers Naik Muhammad and Aurangzeb are also present.
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about a woman and two kidnappers
This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about a woman who lives with her two daughters. One day two men come to the said woman's home at night and try to kidnap her. She kills the kidnappers and gets a prize the next day.
Date:
January 29, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a king and his seven daughters
Recording of a story about a king and his seven daughters. The king once gives out gifts to each of his daughters according to their choices. One of the daughters asks for a locket, but shortly after receiving her gift, she loses it in the river. A jackal tricks her and eventually she is rescued by her brother. The story is narrated by Sosan Jan, a 54-year old housewife from Danna.
Date:
July 14, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of nouns based on semantic domains (2)
Recording of an elicitation of the names of household items in Mankiyali based on English words used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
September 24, 2019
Creator:
Dale, Merrion
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of nouns based on semantic domains (3)
Recording of an elicitation of the names of different animals in Mankiyali. The words are provided in English as prompts and the native speakers provide the equivalents in Mankiyali. Some of the words in the list exhibit lexical tone. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
September 24, 2019
Creator:
Shah, Midhat
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of sentences about coordination and conjunction
Recording of an elicitation of sentences demonstrating the use of conjunction and coordination in Mankiyali. English and Urdu sentences were used as prompts. Throughout the elicitation, discussion of the data takes place between the speakers and the researcher. The speakers also recall several other stories/events in this session. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
October 7, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Discussion about migeration to Rawalpindi
This is a conversation between Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male), Parveen Akhtar (a 60-year old female) and Akbar Jan (a 45-year old female). In this conversation, the speakers talk about the migration of one of their families from the village to Rawalpindi, a metropolitan city in Pakistan. They also talk about the Mankiyali language.
Date:
February 5, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Story about the saying "Unity is Strength"
This is a traditional story about a king who teaches his sons that unity is strength. He explains that one person by himself, just like one stick, can be broken easily, but many people together, like many sticks, cannot be so easily broken. Aurangzeb (born 1985) told the story while Gohar Rehman, born 1981, listened.
Date:
July 14, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story about two brothers
Recording of a story about two brothers in which the elder brother used to oppress the younger brother. The younger brother, by chance, found a magical handmill which made him rich by producing everything that he would demand. The elder brother tried to steal this magical handmill and by his own stupidity and greed he killed himself and also drowned the mill in the river. The contributor Nargis Bibi is a 38-year old housewife.
Date:
February 8, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative of Muhammad Awaiz
Recording of a personal narrative by Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male) in which the speaker talks about the economic hardships he endured as a student up until high school. He then moved to a far off big city in search of a job. There, he acquired a government job which helped him improve his financial situation. In this light, he reiterates his resolve to provide his children better education and better opportunities.
Date:
March 10, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative by Muhammad Suleman
In this conversation with Atta-Ur Rehman, Muhammad Suleman recounts the personal experiences of his first ever journey to the Chitral district of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province where he attended a workshop on orthography and conservation of regional languages of Pakistan organized by the Project Director, Dr. Sadaf Munshi, in collaboration with the Forum for Language Initiatives, Islamabad (Pakistan).
Date:
July 12, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Historical narrative about the tribe of Mankiyal
This is a historical narrative by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). In this recording, the speaker talks about the journey of the forefathers of the Mankiyal tribe came from Kabul (Afghanistan) to Swat via Peshawar (present-day Pakistan), and then onwards from Swat to Shoshni, a village near their current location Danna. According to this account, the language that they speak today was adopted by their ancestors from the Trawara community. The authenticity of the account is to be investigated.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a woman's wisdom, 2
This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.
Date:
February 8, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of greed is curse
This is a retelling of the story of three friends by Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) with Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the three friends once found some money and decided to divide it among themselves. However, each one of them was trying to cheat the others. Finally, no one gets the money and all three end up dead.
Date:
January 20, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a king and his two sons
This is a retelling of the story of a king and his two sons by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). Abdul Qayoum (a 60-year old male) is the listener. In this story, there was a king in Iran who had two sons. The sons get separated from each other. After a long time, there is a battle between the two sons, and one defeats the other. Eventually, they find out that they are brothers and regret that they were fighting.
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about a master and his helper
This is a monologue by Muhammad Aslam (a 38-year old male teacher) about a master and his domestic help. The master asks his helper to bring a sharpening tool and the helper brings sand instead. He could not differentiate between the two words because they were homophonous. The other native speaker present during this recording is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 39-year old male shopkeeper).
Date:
August 18, 2020
Creator:
Aurangzeb
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about the early life of Muhammad Younas
This is a personal narrative by Muhammad Younas (a 60-year old male and retired factory worker) about a time when he was working in Karachi. Muhammad Younas talks about his life in Karachi, other community members who lived there, and some incidents that happened during that time. The other speaker present during this recording is Abdul Qayoum (a 60-year old male).
Date:
August 26, 2020
Creator:
Aurangzeb
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of nouns based on semantic domains (1)
Recording of an elicitation of various nouns in Mankiyali, covering semantic domains such as professions, weather and food. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
September 23, 2019
Creator:
Englert, Eric
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about high school memories, part 2
This is a conversation between Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male) and Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male). In this conversation, Gohar-ur Rehman talks about his memories in high school. He recalls an incident when a student was punished by a teacher on the road. The speakers also recall several other events in this session.
Date:
July 14, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of words for analyzing stress 33
This is an elicitation of words read within a three-sentence frame for the purpose of acoustic analysis of word- and phrase-level stress correlates.
Date:
July 11, 2023
Creator:
Paramore, Jonathan Charles
System:
The UNT Digital Library