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Personal narrative about a foreigner at school

Jagdish Chander describes an episode involving a foreigner at his school during childhood. The recording was made at Jiya Lal's home, where Jagdish happened to pass by.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shiv Bhakti's experience at school and afterwards

Shiv Bhakti describes how good she was at school and and how she got her current job. The recording was made at her home in Chhitkul village.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Balbir Singh Negi's experience as a farmer

Balbir Singh Negi describes his job as farmer and what he does during winter time to prepare for the next season's crops. The recording was made very close to Balbir's house, in front of one of the main temple's storage place.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bal Raj Negi's occupations

Bal Raj Negi describes his occupations and experience in horticulture in Rakchham village and his own life before that. It was recorded at the Uma Guest House in Rakchham village, which Bal owns. Since Bal spent most of his time working outside of Rakchham village, he is actually not fluent in Chhitkul-Rakchham. Interestingly, he uses exclusively Hindi in the second half of the recording. From then on, he speaks faster, it is then very clear he is more conversant with Hindi.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radha's life in Rakchham

Radha Devi describes her life in Rakchham village, from childhood to present, noting the many difficulties she encountered. The recording was made at Shudha Bakhti's house in Rakchham village.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jiya Lal's experience as Mata Devi's oracle

Jiya Lal describes his experience as Mata Devi’s Mali (Oracle). The recording was made at his home in Chhitkul village.
Date: 2018/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar's childhood in Chhitkul village captions transcript

Ram Kumar's childhood in Chhitkul village

Ram Kumar describes his childhood in Chhitkul village. The recording was made at the Government Senior Secondary School in Chhitkul village, where Kumar is a teacher. The school is located further down the village, on the river bank, on the road towards the military checkpoint.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roshan Laal Negi's experience in the Indian army captions transcript

Roshan Laal Negi's experience in the Indian army

Roshan Laal Negi describes his experience in the ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) and in the Indian Army. The ITBP is very much present in the area of Chhitkul village, notably due to recurring tensions with China. The recording was made in the living room of his house in Chhitkul village. His house is one of the most spacious houses at the back of the village.
Date: October 12, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bal Raj Negi's occupations captions transcript

Bal Raj Negi's occupations

Bal Raj Negi describes his occupations and experience in horticulture in Rakchham village and his own life before that. It was recorded at the Uma Guest House in Rakchham village, which Bal owns. Since Bal spent most of his time working outside of Rakchham village, he is actually not fluent in Chhitkul-Rakchham. Interestingly, he uses exclusively Hindi in the second half of the recording. From then on, he speaks faster, it is then very clear he is more conversant with Hindi.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radha's life in Rakchham captions transcript

Radha's life in Rakchham

Radha Devi describes her life in Rakchham village, from childhood to present, noting the many difficulties she encountered. The recording was made at Shudha Bakhti's house in Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jiya Lal's experience as Mata Devi's oracle captions transcript

Jiya Lal's experience as Mata Devi's oracle

Jiya Lal describes his experience as Mata Devi’s Mali (Oracle). The recording was made at his home in Chhitkul village.
Date: November 25, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about a foreigner at school captions transcript

Personal narrative about a foreigner at school

Jagdish Chander describes an episode involving a foreigner at his school during childhood. The recording was made at Jiya Lal's home, where Jagdish happened to pass by.
Date: November 4, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shiv Bhakti's experience at school and afterwards captions transcript

Shiv Bhakti's experience at school and afterwards

Shiv Bhakti describes how good she was at school and and how she got her current job. The recording was made at her home in Chhitkul village.
Date: November 25, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Balbir Singh Negi's experience as a farmer captions transcript

Balbir Singh Negi's experience as a farmer

Balbir Singh Negi describes his job as farmer and what he does during winter time to prepare for the next season's crops. The recording was made very close to Balbir's house, in front of one of the main temple's storage place. The door behind Balbir is typical of the temple doors all over Kinnaur district: wooden and beautifully carved.
Date: December 18, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speeches on language resources for endangered languages captions transcript

Speeches on language resources for endangered languages

Video of the speakers in the morning session of the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages. The presenters detailed what language resources currently exist, their strengths and weaknesses, and what languages still require more documentation and archiving.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on linguistic fieldwork captions transcript

Speech on linguistic fieldwork

Video of the opening keynote session by James Mastioff on best practices for linguists when working with endangered languages during the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussions about documenting and archiving languages captions transcript

Discussions about documenting and archiving languages

Video of one group discussion during the break-out session at the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages. Participants broke up into two groups to discuss various issues that emerge during the process of documenting and archiving languages.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion on the Lamkang verb system in Imphal Manipur. captions transcript

Discussion on the Lamkang verb system in Imphal Manipur.

A lecture on verb system of Lamkang to the Lamkang and Manipuri speakers at the Manipur Language Department, Imphal. Attended by Prof. Yashwanta Singh, HoD Linguistics Department, Manipur University and various other professors from different colleges.
Date: August 8, 2018
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech on information sharing and ethics captions transcript

Speech on information sharing and ethics

Video of a presentation explaining aspects of information ethics and how to ethically share information during an afternoon session of the 2018 CoRSAL Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for a Computational Resource on South Asian Languages.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of Linguistics.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library