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Monologue on cultural practices transcript

Monologue on cultural practices

Recording of Hasil Murad having a discussion over Daghowan Dolas, a cultural practice. This discussion is in Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Flying Horse and Giant Monster in Urdu transcript

Retelling of Flying Horse and Giant Monster in Urdu

Recording of Samina explaining the story "Haghur ke Phut" in Urdu. This is a popular story about a flying horse and a monster. The story was originally narrated by Mahida Murad in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski, and this is an explanation/translation of it into Urdu by Mahida's daughter, Samina.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion about the song entitled "Wahdate Shaan" in Urdu transcript

Discussion about the song entitled "Wahdate Shaan" in Urdu

Recording of Ghulamuddin Hunzai translating the story Wahdate Shaan into Urdu.
Date: July 30, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Choke Minas in Urdu transcript

Retelling of Choke Minas in Urdu

Recording of Muhammad Wazir Khan (or "Wazir Shafi") translating and discussing the story of an owl (known as "Chok-e Minas" in Burushaski) in Urdu. The story was originally recording in Yasin Burushaski, which Khan is a speaker of.
Date: July 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of Ruqayya's Recipes transcript

Description of Ruqayya's Recipes

Recording of Naseema Ali translating Ruqayya's recipes for čʰap-šuro, diram-phiṭi, and mulo-šuro from Burushaski into Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Karim, Piar
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Surung Thuko transcript

Retelling of Surung Thuko

Recording of Piar Karim translating Surung Thuko from Burushaski into Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Karim, Piar
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of Ruqayya's Recipes transcript

Description of Ruqayya's Recipes

Recording of Piar Karim and Naseema Ali explaining recipes for suančale hoi, garma, and mul given by Ruqayya from Nagar Burushaski into Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Karim, Piar
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of Ruqayya's Recipes transcript

Description of Ruqayya's Recipes

Recording of Piar Karim translating the recipes for nagere šarbat, ɣumaldi, and burus ṣapik given by Ruqayya from Nagar Burushaski to Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion on the terms "Khajunaa" & "Phaṭor Ṣape" transcript

Discussion on the terms "Khajunaa" & "Phaṭor Ṣape"

Recording of an analytical discussion of the words "Khajuna" and the word "Phaṭor Ṣape" in Urdu language.
Date: July 26, 2011
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation with Sher Ahmed captions transcript

Conversation with Sher Ahmed

Video recording of Sher Ahmad having a discussion in Urdu.
Date: June 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of A Simple Sparrow transcript

Retelling of A Simple Sparrow

Recording of Wazir Shafi translating the story of Saada Chinan from the Yasin dialect of Burushaski into Urdu.
Date: July 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Surung Thuko transcript

Retelling of Surung Thuko

Recording of Piar Karim and Naseema Ali translating the story of Surung Thuko from Nagar Burushaski into Urdu.
Date: July 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation on the languages of Rāmpūr village and the nearby Muslim-dominated villages of the region (in Urdu)

This is a conversation primarily with Mr. Jameel, the former and currently contesting Pardhān (village head) of Rāmpūr village. Mr. Jameel explains to Maaz the presence of dichotomy in speech among the population of Azamgarh and the variety spoken in Rāmpūr and other nearby Muslim-dominated villages. In the last part of the recording, Mr. Jameel talks with a villager who passes by.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Video recording of a conversation on the languages of Rāmpūr village and the nearby Muslim-dominated villages of the region (in Urdu)

This is a conversation primarily with Mr. Jameel, the former and currently contesting Pardhān (village head) of Rampur village. Mr. Jameel gives the researcher information regarding the presence of dichotomy in speech among the population of Azamgarh and the variety spoken in Rampur and other nearby Muslim-dominated villages. In the last part of the recording, Mr. Jameel talks with a villager who passes by.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the story of Raja Janmejai and of the King and Queen of Mehnagar

This is a retelling of the story of Raja Janmejai and of the King and Queen of Mehnagar narrated by Toofani Kaka
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the folksong Dulahē kī ammā ‘O the bridegroom’s mother’

This is a performance of a traditional song by the title ‘Dulahē kī ammā’ (Eng. O the mother of the bridegroom). In this song, the bridegroom’s mother is asked to bless her son on this auspicious marriage occasion. Such folksongs are of great significance to the community; however, until recently, their popularity and importance have started dwindling because of the penetration of urban culture into rural society. This folksong is in the Eastern dialect of Urdu.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a joke

This is a recording of Mr. Anwar reciting a joke on the wit of an Indian involved in an argument with an American and a Russian.
Date: January 31, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on Mande village

This is a monologue on Mande village by Master Mohammad Khalid. The narrative is in the Northern (Mande) dialect of Azamgarhi. Frequent code-switching to Urdu can be easily heard even when pointed out to speak in the local language by the researcher in the beginning part of the recording.
Date: January 31, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of various folk songs along with discussions on them and some conversations

This is a recording of various folktales which begin with a short conversation. After completing the narration of a story, Mehar Afroz asks Qamar Afroz to stitch a cloth. After which, she asks Asiya Khatoon to sing some folksongs along with her, followed by a discussion on each of them. These kinds of traditional songs are sung on the occasion of girls' marriage, varying from praising the beauty of the beloved daughter to vidāī — the girl's farewell from their parental home. The songs in this recording are in the Eastern dialect of Urdu. The discussions on them and some other conversations take place in a mix of Azamgarhi and Urdu.
Date: February 1, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the current government and its policies

This is a video recording of an interview type conversation between the researcher and Aquil Ahmad on the current BJP government and its policies. At the researcher’s request, Aquil Ahmad presents his critical views related to the present Government, its policies, and its supporters and voters.
Date: February 3, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion on the drama Gharphū̃kan patōh 'spendthrift daughter-in-law'

This is an analytical discussion — in Urdu — on a drama titled – Gharphū̃kan patōh (Eng. spendthrift daughter-in-law). It depicts a typical rural life of the North Indian plains where a woman and her family are very much sick of the misdeeds of the daughter-in-law because she is very spendthrift! Naazli helps Maaz understand some unfamiliar words and guides him through some of the sentences while she was sewing some clothes on the sewing machine.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation on issues of agricultural produce, and about relatives

This is a conversation in Ḍhilaī̃ village, situated nearby Fatehpūr, in the Maū district of UP, taking place in the Eastern dialect of Azamgarhi. The conversation begins with some issues in the selling of the current year’s harvest of paddy. Then the speakers move on to talking on matters of relatives.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion on languages of the Purvanchal region of UP and Urdu

This is a discussion about the language and language varieties spoken in the districts of the Pūrvānchal region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, such as Maū, Balliā, and Āzamgaṛh. The speaker Mr. Maqsood Khan initiates with a short monologue on the election season in his mother tongue Bhojpuri spoken in his village Jogarī. He then proceeds to the varieties spoken in the region as he seems to have excellent knowledge on the same. The monologue then turns into a discussion about the differences of culture and language of Āzamgaṛh and Maū. It then shifts to the state of Urdu in India.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manuscript of fieldnotes on Azamgarhi language (open access)

Manuscript of fieldnotes on Azamgarhi language

This is a manuscript of handwritten fieldnotes on Azamgarhi language by Maaz Shaikh. These fieldnotes are of initial elicitation of words and some basic sentences. Later on, the researcher shifts to ‘Discourse-centered approach’.
Date: 2019-12/2020-11
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library