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Assam (Garo Hills)
Video of life in Assam villages featuring landscapes, the Brahmaputra river, wild elephants, traditional houses, cotton fields, and scenes from the marketplace.
Date:
October 31, 1944
Creator:
Ferger, H. R.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
In the Shadow of the Tiger
Documentary about life in the villages surrounding the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal (Shiltong, South Paro, North Paro, Rajabathkava, and Bothia villages). Villagers and government officials describe a project by the World Bank to create wildlife reserves for endangered species, specifically the Bengal tiger. Villagers struggle to grow enough food, and elephants trample their fields. They were told to resettle elsewhere, but refused to leave their ancestral lands. Selling firewood is a main source of income for most, leading to deforestation in the reserve areas. Government officials committed to providing infrastructure (irrigation, roads, electricity, fences) on the condition that villagers stop cutting down trees on the reserve. The documentary ends with a letter from Tileswar Rabha stating that the villagers have ended their communication with the Forest Department after they shot a villager carrying firewood.
Date:
1998
Creator:
Grundström, Veena & Karlsson, Beppe
Object Type:
Video
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Boro Tones
A linguistic description of Boro tones, specifically in polysyllabic words, including an overview of Boro's phonemic inventory and syllable structure. The authors identify three tones (high, low, and falling), present examples, and discuss the effects of morphology and final consonants on tone. They conclude by comparing the Boro tone system to those of Tiwa and Rabha, and positing directions for further investigation.
Date:
April 2006
Creator:
Burling, Robbins & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Boro tones and syllable structure
Handwritten notes on Boro, focusing on tone, pitch, and lexical stress in polysyllabic words. Includes examples of three tones (high, low, and falling), discussion of how these tones are differentiated, and diagrams of potential tone combinations.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Boro Tones handout
A handout summarizing of Burling's discussion of the Boro tone system at the Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) II conference in Gauhati, Assam. Includes handwritten annotations of tones in words ranging from 1-3+ syllables.
Date:
2007
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa tone and syllable structure
Handwritten notes on Dimasa phonology (tone, phoneme inventory, syllable structure, creaky voice), grammar (case marking, adjective formation, tense and aspect marking) and regional variation.
Date:
2009-02-10/2009-03-17
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa tones, pitch, and vowel length
Handwritten notes on Dimasa phonology (tone, pitch, syllable structure) with special focus on vowel quality and final glottal stops. Includes word lists of kinship terms, body parts, natural world, animals, household items, numerals, agriculture, and transitive verbs of motion.
Date:
2009-03-07/2009-06-05
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa phonology
Handwritten notes on Dimasa phonology with special focus on vowel quality and final glottals. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date:
2009-03-10/2009-03-15
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assam, Sheet Number 78 N/SW
Map of Assam showing the Brahmaputra River Valley.
Date:
1912
Creator:
Survey of India
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Map of Assam & Bengal Sheet No. 78 G / NE & SE
Map of Assam and Bengal in 1925 showing the Brahmaputra river and topography of the surrounding areas.
Date:
1925
Creator:
Survey of India
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assam, Sheet Number 78 J/SW & SE
Partial map of Assam.
Date:
1911?
Creator:
Survey of India
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on multilingual dictionary compilation
Typed and handwritten notes of Burling's considerations while compiling a multilingual dictionary of Bodo-Garo languages in a spreadsheet. Includes documentation of conventions used, description of each column's function, and discussion of borrowings, cognates, orthography, and problematic examples.
Date:
[2005..2015]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Newspaper Clippings from 'Achik Songbad' Volume 4, Number 33, August 31, 1956]
Newspaper clipping covering global events in Europe, East Asia, and North Africa, as well as regional news from India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
Date:
August 31, 1956
Creator:
Marak, N. N.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bodo Correspondences August 2000
Typed table of sound correspondences from Proto-Bodo-Garo in 4 Bodo-Garo languages (Tiwa, Boro, Garo, Rabha) arranged by initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
Date:
[2000..2002]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on languages on Northeast India
Handwritten notes on several langues of Northeast India in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh. Includes lists of languages, language name variants, hand drawn maps, and basic demographics of language communities. Notes on classification compare how the Linguistic Survey of India, Robert Schafer, and Geoffrey Marrison group these languages.
Date:
April 2004
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Proto-Bodo-Garo correspondences word list
Typed table comparing multiple Boro-Garo languages to Proto-Bodo-Garo reconstructed forms, arranged alphabetically by English gloss. Includes handwritten notes clarifying glosses, tones, and sources of information.
Date:
[2005..2015]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins & Jacquesson, Francois
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Kubidik: A Garo-English-Assamese Dictionary
Multilingual dictionary of Garo, English, and Assamese arranged alphabetically by Garo headwords. Glosses include lexical category, English and Assamese glosses, and variant forms.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Marak, Harendra W.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Garo and Tiwa grammar
Handwritten notes on Tiwa and Garo grammar including case marking, adverbials, and nominalization.
Date:
[2000..2010]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar
Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology (tone, glottals, syllable structure) and grammar (case, adverbials, compounds, classifiers, negation) with sample sentences and phrases. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (animals, body parts, natural world, household, agriculture, verbs of motion/ break/ cut/ carry/ burn/ boil, time, and health).
Date:
2000-11-15/2000-12-18
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Revised Tiwa word list
Typed Tiwa word list arranged alphabetically by English gloss including columns for original spelling, revised spelling, gloss, and source of information in Burling's handwritten field notes. Glosses minimally include simple English translations, as well as lexical categories, comparisons to Garo, and brief comments on wordhood, transitivity, usage, and affixes.
Date:
[2001..2010]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Tiwa tone
Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology examining tone in monosyllabic and polysyllabic forms and the impact of case and TAM markers on tone.
Date:
[2000..2010]
Creator:
Burling, Robbins
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library