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Monologue on festivals transcript

Monologue on festivals

Recording of Bano reciting a cultural account on festivals in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: September 15, 2011
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of the Tiger and Squirrel story

This is a recording of Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt discussing writing samples collected at an SIL writer's workshop. The results of the discussion were used for grammar and word collection.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion of a writing sample transcript

Discussion of a writing sample

Discussion of a written sample from an SIL writing workshop. The purpose is to understand the writing system and to learn about grammatical constructions from a variety of speakers.
Date: March 15, 2008
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of LLEC word list transcript

Reading of LLEC word list

Elicitation of words from the LLEC word list with Sumshot Khular.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of the The Frog and the Tiger

Recording of Sumshot Khular reading and translating the story of The Frog and the Tiger with Tyler Utt.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 89 Side A

Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə II, 15/11-81
Date: November 15, 1981
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 89 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə III, 15/11-81
Date: November 15, 1981
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on the Bo Phaw festival transcript

Monologue on the Bo Phaw festival

Recording of Bano reciting a cultural account of "bo phaw" in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of adverbial clauses transcript

Elicitation of adverbial clauses

This is a recording of an elicitation of adverbial clauses in Mankiyali based on English sentences 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 15, 2019
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Charachuang lui'

The folk song is about a personal experience on war and village life of Charachuang.The singer is from Maguilong village. The legendary composer of the song is Charachuang of Makhianglong village.
Date: July 15, 2011
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Saihriem marriage system

Chongpu Chongloi describes the marriage system of the Saihriem as practiced by their traditional forefathers. He is a native speaker of Saihriem from Noxa Tila, Cachar District, Assam, around 85 years old at the time of recording.
Date: August 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the traditional narrative 'Rengchonghoi'

Hoihte Saihrem, aged 80, is a female speaker of Saihriem. She tells the story of a beautiful lady called Rengchonghoi and her seven brothers.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of words for seasons and months transcript

Elicitation of words for seasons and months

Recording of an elicitation of a word list for seasons and months. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Dale, Merrion
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 53 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. Death rituals I. Notebook 93. Continued on Tape 57, Chiengmai 15/6-78. goq xhɛ̀ goq doq thóg
Date: June 15, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tape 88 Side B

Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə I, 15/11-81
Date: November 15, 1981
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of a traditional narrative about Chemtatepu in Hindi

C. Hawa tells the traditional narrative 'Chemtatepu' about animals in Hindi, translating from the original Saihriem. He is from Bahbahar village, Cachar District, Assam, around 52 years old at the time of recording.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation about possessive pronouns transcript

Elicitation about possessive pronouns

This is a recording of an elicitation about possessive pronouns demonstrating how possession is expressed in Mankiyali. 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 15, 2019
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of a Benglam Story transcript

Reading of a Benglam Story

Sumshot Khular reads a Benglam story transcribed during a writer's workshop conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Manipur.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of noun forms transcript

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
Traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy transcript

Traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy

Sumshot Khular tells the story of The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy, followed by elicitation and discussion. She is referencing a transcript of the story. The story is about a poor boy and a rich boy who went to set a trap. The poor boy's trap caught a deer and the rich boy got nothing, but he put the deer in his trap and tried to cheat the poor boy.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on the history of polo transcript

Monologue on the history of polo

Recording of Wazir Abbas telling the History of Polo in the Nagar dialect. Abbas claims that the modern version of Polo on horses originated in Nagar. He then tells of a battle between the people of Nagar and Hunza.
Date: October 15, 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the traditional narrative 'Mairangkoh and Sapinthei'

Hoihte Saihriem, aged 64, is a female speaker from Bahbahar village of Cachar district of Assam. She tells the story of a wicked lady who killed the wife of Sapinthei and later married her father. This wicked lady had a daughter named Mairangkoh. Together, they tortured Sapinthei and managed to kill her after she was married to a king.
Date: August 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the traditional narrative 'Ralngam'

Hoihte Saihriem tells the story of Ralngam. In this story, Ralngam befriends a tiger, and they compete and eat food together. Ralngam learns magic from the tiger. She is a female Saihriem speaker from the Barak Valley (currently living in Bahbahar), around 80 years old at the time of recording. She is also a speaker of Bengali.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Bilbal Wazir transcript

Retelling of Bilbal Wazir

Recording of Bano reciting “Bilbal Wazir” in the Hunza dialect. This is a popular story about Minister Bilbal, who was once a worker, and spent his money before he came home t his wife. He then proves his wisdom by not doing what he was told, and became a minister.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library