Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school (open access)

Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school

This is a conversation between Rawang speakers discussing establishing a school for teaching Rawang in their area. The classes happen on Sundays or in the evenings. They worry that students feel discouraged when they don't know parts of their language, especially older learners, so they would like to start classes when students are younger. They make a plan to train more teachers and create more books.
Date: August 2008
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Maghlot and Girkits (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Maghlot and Girkits

Transcription and translation of the recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan narrating the story of "Maghlot ke Girkits" ('weasel and rat') in the Srinagar dialect. In this popular story two boys are born conjoined, and are separated by a knife. The two brothers are raised by two separate clans, always meeting in constant contention with each other, giving them the nicknames Maghlot ('weasel') and Girkits ('rat') for their physical and behavioral traits. Knowing the brothers would create instability, the king separates the kingdom into two halves, creating the divide between the Hunza and the Nagar people
Date: June 2008
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-UNDRIP (open access)

United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-UNDRIP

Chaatti Kunpun ni Mdopandandok Indigenous Mii Rek Kih Ruhtana, the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Lamkang. Translated by Sumshot Khular, the indigenous peoples rights provision under UNDRIP.
Date: 2008
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
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 Rengpu Rex Khullar. Very short story about Benglam acting foolishly: Sitting up in a tree, he saws a branch between himself and the trunk, and falls and breaks his back.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar (open access)

Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar

Handwritten notes on Dimasa with a brief description of the phoneme inventory and consonant clusters and notes on grammar (case marking, plural forms, question formation, tense and aspect marking) including example phrases and sentences. Word lists cover verbs of perception, verbs of motion, interrogatives, fire, insects, units of measurement, and numerals.
Date: 2008-01-25/2008-02
Creator: Burling, Robbins
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries (open access)

Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries

Handwritten notes on Dimasa summarizing the status of Burling's description of various aspects of the language: interrogatives, modals, post-positions and subordinators, case marking, negation, TAM, and adverbials. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date: 2008-02/2009
Creator: Burling, Robbins
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length (open access)

Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length

Handwritten notes on Dimasa with special focus on tone, vowel length, and final glottals. Includes regional word list, words with final -p and -k, and minimal pairs and triplets demonstrating vowel length distinctions in adjectival forms.
Date: 2008-03-27/2008-04
Creator: Burling, Robbins
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scripts for conversational vignette (open access)

Scripts for conversational vignette

Typed and handwritten conversation scripts translated from Manipuri to Lamkang. Conversation topics include riding the bus, staying at a hotel, visiting a market, getting a haircut, talking on the phone, and meeting colleagues.
Date: May 20, 2008
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
System: The UNT Digital Library