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Description of Rakchham village and its surroundings captions transcript

Description of Rakchham village and its surroundings

Vinod describes Rakchham village’s history, its surroundings, local deities, and the surrounding environment. The recording was made at Uma Homestay.
Date: November 20, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison between Chhitkul and Rakchham villages captions transcript

Comparison between Chhitkul and Rakchham villages

Hoshiar Singh Negi discusses differences between Chhitkul and Rakchham villages in the climate, economy, and culture. The recording was made at one of Hoshiar Singh Negi’s two houses in Chhitkul.
Date: November 4, 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
Conversation about the future of Chhitkul village captions transcript

Conversation about the future of Chhitkul village

Gangaa Devi and Amir Singh describe how they envision the future of Chhitkul village. The recording was made at their home, the Amar Guest House in Chhitkul village.
Date: November 1, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
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
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
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
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
Description of life in Chhitkul during summer and winter captions transcript

Description of life in Chhitkul during summer and winter

Vijay describes the passing of the seasons in Chhitkul village. The language spoken in this recording is Amro Boli 'Our Language,' an Indo-Aryan variety spoken throughout Kinnaur district. The recording was made at his workplace, a digital studio.
Date: October 31, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about living conditions in Chhitkul village captions transcript

Conversation about living conditions in Chhitkul village

Ravi and Daya discuss living conditions in Chhitkul village, debating whether life there is difficult or not. The recording was made at the Rani Guest House in Chhitkul village.
Date: October 30, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about tourism in Chhitkul village captions transcript

Conversation about tourism in Chhitkul village

Ram Kumar and Bhag Singh Negi debate the pros and cons of tourism in Chhitkul village. Neither of them is directly involved in any business related to tourism, which allows for a frank debate. The recording was made at the Government Senior Secondary School in Chhitkul village, where Kumar is a teacher.
Date: October 15, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of life in Chhitkul village in earlier times captions transcript

Description of life in Chhitkul village in earlier times

Amir Sing describes how life was in Chhitkul village before it was connected to the world by major roads, or the 'highway road.' He emphasizes how hard life was in Chhitkul when the village was still isolated, before the road was built in the 1980s. The recording was made at Amar Guest House, which is run by Amir and his family. The video starts at the back of Chhitkul's main temple and follows the narrow path up to the wooden guest house.
Date: October 12, 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
Description of a typical day at work captions transcript

Description of a typical day at work

Ram Kumar describes his responsibilities as a teacher of English and social science (history, geography and civic education), and what he especially likes about his job. 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
Description of the Flower Festival (Usko) captions transcript

Description of the Flower Festival (Usko)

Ram describes the Flower Festival (‘Pulatʃ’,or 'Usko' in Chhitkul-Rakchham), a five day festival that celebrates the end of summer and crops. It usually takes place during the first week of October. He discusses why it is important for the community, how it concretely takes place, and what he especially likes about the festival. The recording was made at Chhitkul's Government Senior Secondary School, down below the village, on the river bank.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
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
Ram Kumar's favourite place in Kinnaur captions transcript

Ram Kumar's favourite place in Kinnaur

Ram Kumar describes why Rakchham village is his favorite place in Kinnaur District.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ram Kumar's hopes for his children captions transcript

Ram Kumar's hopes for his children

Ram Kumar discusses his hopes for his children and the power of education. The recording was made at Chhitkul's Senior Secondary School, located further down the village, on the river bank, towards the path leading to the military checkpoint.
Date: October 8, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
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
Transcription: Conversation about traditonal stories and songs (open access)

Transcription: Conversation about traditonal stories and songs

Transcription of a discussion about and performance of a traditional Lamkang song. Recorded at Swamy Tholung's. David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah were invited for lunch. At that event, elders were invited to come in talk for the recorder.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography

Handwritten notes illustrating minimal pairs contrasting [tl] and [thl] by Daniel Tholung during his visit to UNT.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

A short History of the Lamkang by Shethon Sankhil Thamlakhuren

A short History of the Lamkang written by Shethon Sankhil, Professor at the United Chandel College booklet presented to Shobhana Chelliah during the visit to the Lamkangs in Chandel, Manipur, India.
Date: January 11, 2018
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Photograph
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

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