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Transcription: Traditional story about the Boy and the Tiger (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Boy and the Tiger

Transcription of a retelling of Buurling le humpii paa paomin (the Story of the Boy and the Tiger), as narrated by Kangten Shakhila. The elder brother's wife tells her husband to kill his younger brother. At first he just pretends to do so, and then he abandons his younger brother in a tree. There the younger brother meets a tiger who wants to eat fruit from the tree. The boy offers to feed the tiger but stabs him instead. [INCOMPLETE.]
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam

Transcription of a Benglam Story, as told by Grace Sankhil. This Benglam story is about what happens when Beglam is on his way to bury a child.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa by Suungnem Bunghon (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa by Suungnem Bunghon

Transcription of a retelling of Raapa paomin (the Story of Raapa), as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem. A tiger, angry at being duped by Koreng, eats him. Koreng's sisters vow to marry whoever kills the tiger, and the only one able to do it is Raapa. Jealous, the other men conspire to kill Raapa, but he survives two attempts and tricks them so that they drown. In the end Koreng's sisters kill Raapa.
Date: August 31, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex & Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue about home life (open access)

Transcription: Monologue about home life

Transcription of Kennedy Dilbung, studying and living in Delhi, talking about his family in Khorpii village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: 2017~
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Dingkaakuuk (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Dingkaakuuk

Transcription of a retelling of Dingkaakuuk paomin (the story of Dingkaakuuk), as narrated by Swamy Tholung Ksen. When a man marries, his wife cannot stand his younger brother, so he takes him into the forest and leads her to believe he killed him. The younger brother kills a tiger and marries a young woman. He encounters his elder brother again, who kills his wife for making him abandon his brother.
Date: August 6, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translation of the Prodigal Son (open access)

Translation of the Prodigal Son

Translation of the story of the Prodigal Son, from the Book of Matthew, in Lamkang. Translated by Daniel Tholung as part on the ongoing translation work of the Lamkang Bible with the Evangel Bible Translators.
Date: unknown
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa paomin (The Squirrel Story), as narrated by Bunghon Sankhil.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for an interview about biographical information from Chonmila Sankhil (open access)

Transcript for an interview about biographical information from Chonmila Sankhil

Transcription of an interview in which Beshot Khullar asks Chonmila Sankhil about their life in Phaaidaam village Chandel District Manipur, India.
Date: August 8, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Reading of a verb list (open access)

Transcription: Reading of a verb list

Transcription of Daniel Tholung reading a list of verbs in English and Lamkang.
Date: 2010
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Why are monkeys' bottoms flat? (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Why are monkeys' bottoms flat?

Transcription of a retelling of Talu ki yoong rek thul a ktrpeek? (Why are monkeys' bottoms flat?), as written by Khumwar Suungnem during a writing workshop sponsored by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. A fable explaining how monkeys' bottoms came to be flat. Long ago an old married couple had a monkey troop living next to them. The monkeys would eat all the seed they sowed, so the couple planted yams, which they would not eat. When the yams were slow to grow, one of the monkeys told them they ought to boil the yam seeds first. While the couple were in the field to boil water, the monkeys entered their house. They chased away the monkeys, and one that got stuck had its bottom beaten flat by the old man.
Date: March 9, 2017
Creator: Suungnem, Khumwar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part IV (open access)

Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part IV

Transcription of a retelling of the Origin of the Lamkang: part IV, as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Description of travel plans with modals (open access)

Transcription: Description of travel plans with modals

Transcription of Sumshot Khular discussing what it's like to travel to the USA with Daniel Tholung, Shobhana Chelliah, and Mary Burke. This conversation took place in Sumshot's living room on the January 11, 2018 in Thamlakhuren village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: January 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of the Story of Invading the Village Haika (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Story of Invading the Village Haika

Transcription of retelling of Raal ki paomin (Invading the Village Haika) told by Shetwor Dilbung, in which we get an account of how the Kuki (Khungsai) people invaded the village Haika to take revenge on a Lamkang man for killing a Kuki woman. At the time of the invasion, the people of Haika were celebrating the Merit Feast (Totlang). When the attack was announced, people at first did not believe it.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Khular, Sumshot & Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel and the Tiger (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel and the Tiger

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa le humpii paa paomin (the Story of the Squirrel and the Tiger), as narrated by Shetwor Dilbung of Keithelmanbi Lamkang VIllage in Chandel District Manipur, India.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee (open access)

Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee

Transcription of a discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlaang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Conversation with a Lamkang student at Phaaidaam village (open access)

Transcription: Conversation with a Lamkang student at Phaaidaam village

Transcription of a conversation between Beshot Khullar and a Lamkang student. Beshot interviews the student about her home life and family.
Date: September 26, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Three Sons (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Three Sons

Transcription of a retelling of Chaa paa kdum ki paomin (Story of Three Sons), as narrated by Bunghon Sankhil. Asked by their parents what they would like to do, the first son answers he wants to join the army, the second that he wants to work. But, the third son refuses to work. The father leads the third son away to abandon him. The boy hears a tiger and has it try some fruit from the tree. While feeding the tiger, he skewers it. A pair of crows comes by and the boy catches the female, then makes the male check on the tiger before releasing her. Assured that the tiger is dead, the boy comes down from the tree. A pair of wildcats place a spell on him. when they run away, he gets control over their spell. He meets a pair of women and displays his magic to them. He tells the women to obey him, and that if they want to see his magic, they must marry him. They agree. After they've married, the boy refuses to pitch in on a building project, and the others decide to kill him. Their plan goes awry and they beg …
Date: 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library
System of Spelling in Lamkang by Lamkang Literature Society (open access)

System of Spelling in Lamkang by Lamkang Literature Society

A document in Lamkang detailing the spelling system of the Lamkang language and the names of months and days in Lamkang. Produced under the Lamkang Literature society. Written by Michael Bepol Sankhil as it President of the Lamkang Literature Society.
Date: September 25, 2002
Creator: Bepol, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Rex (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Rex

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), narrated by Rengpu Rex Khullar of Phaaidaam village in New Delhi.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Interview about Lamkang language and society (open access)

Transcription: Interview about Lamkang language and society

Rengpu Rex Khullar of Phaidam discussing with Grace Sankhil (who lives in Delhi) and Mary of Phaidam about her visit to Delhi. They also discuss the current situation of the Lamkang language and how Lamkang society is now, what needs to be done to encourage progress of the community.
Date: ~2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part II (open access)

Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part II

Transcription of a retelling of the Origin of the Lamkang: Boy Descended from the Sun, as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam

Transcription of a retelling of a Benglam story, as told by Beshot Khullar. Short story about Benglam outwitting his would-be captors: Caught by the Kuki, he insists he be tied up at his elbow and pulled by the rope from a distance. Left alone, he ties the rope to a tree and escapes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam by Beshot Khullar (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam by Beshot Khullar

Transcription of a Benglam story, as told by Beshot Khullar.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa

Transcription of a retelling of Raapa paomin (the story of Raapa), as narrated by Shetphong Sankhil. Raapa lived with his grandmother and was very obedient. The other men in the village came to hate Raapa because a woman was devoted to him. They decided to kill him. A tiger came by and ate the pig belonging to a widow with 2 daughters. The widow invited the men to kill the tiger, offering a daughter to whoever is successful. No one was able. Raapa asked for some spinning tools to use as a weapon. He applied poison to one and hit the tiger with it. The tiger taunted Raapa before the poison took effect and killed it. Jealous of his success, the other men invited Raapa on a hunting trip, trapping him underground with the hedgehogs. They told Raapa's grandmother that he was killed. Raapa managed to kill all the hedgehogs and return home.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library