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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
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of agricultural terms
This is a recording of a wordlist for agricultural terms contributed by Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher.
Date:
December 16, 2019
Creator:
Iqbal, Javid
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of kinship terms
Recording of a wordlist of kinship terms in Mankiyali, translated from English. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman, a 38-year old male shop owner.
Date:
December 12, 2019
Creator:
Iqbal, Javid
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of names of animals
This is a recording of an elicitation of a wordlist for names of animals in Mankiyali contributed by Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old shop owner).
Date:
December 16, 2019
Creator:
Shah, Midhat
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about travel to Chitral
This is a monologue about a visit to Chitral district by Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher). The speaker is telling that it was a surprise for him to travel by air for the first time and it was his first visit to Chitral. He was very excited about this trip.
Date:
July 6, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about preparations for winter
This is a conversation between Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and fieldworker Uzma Anjum. The speaker tells how people prepare for the winter in Danna, his village.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of numerals one to hundred
This is an elicitation of Mankiyali numerals from one to hundred by Atta-ur Rehman (a 37-year old male teacher).
Date:
January 31, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Video
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
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of natural resources
Recording of an elicitation of a wordlist for names for several kinds of natural resources and objects in Mankiyali. The speaker, born in 1981, recorded himself reciting the wordlist. No English translations are provided in the recording.
Date:
December 5, 2019
Creator:
Rehman, Gohar-Ur
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of verb paradigms
Recording of an elicitation of basic verb paradigms in Mankiyali in the simple present tense forms. The verbs covered are copula 'be' and verbs such as 'eat', 'drink', 'laugh' and 'sing'. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date:
September 20, 2019
Creator:
Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a woman's wisdom, 1
This is a retelling of a story about an evil man (a king/prince) who used to get married and then kill his wives. Eventually, he married a very wise girl, and she used her wisdom to make him a gentle man. In this recording, the narrator Abdul Qayum (a 59-year old male factory worker) is addressing Alam Zeb (a 32-year old male teacher).
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a woman's wisdom, 1
This is a retelling of a story about an evil man (a king/prince) who used to get married and then kill his wives. Eventually, he married a very wise girl, and she used her wisdom to make him a gentle man. In this recording, the narrator Abdul Qayum (a 59-year old male factory worker) is addressing Alam Zeb (a 32-year old male teacher).
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a prayer to god
This poem is a prayer to god by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male).
Date:
March 12, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a prayer to god
This poem is a prayer to god by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male).
Date:
March 12, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
Object Type:
Video
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
Object Type:
Video
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem about the Judgement Day
This is a performance of a poem that warns about the brevity of life and the imminent arrival of the Judgement Day. Existence, including life, is ephemeral, so we would do better to prepare for the grave than pile up riches and seek pleasure in this life. The contributor Muhammad Aslam is a 36-year old male teacher.
Date:
July 12, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem about the Judgement Day
This is a performance of a poem that warns about the brevity of life and the imminent arrival of the Judgement Day. Existence, including life, is ephemeral, so we would do better to prepare for the grave than pile up riches and seek pleasure in this life. The contributor Muhammad Aslam is a 36-year old male teacher.
Date:
July 12, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type:
Video
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library