Akha notebook 907 (open access)

Akha notebook 907

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of elicited sentences and noun phrases, a traditional narrative about building houses, and word lists including numerals 1-100, time, and pronouns.
Date: February 1, 1989
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 133 (open access)

Akha notebook 133

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and songs about blessing children, traveling, illness, Akha hair styles, bees, spirits, and rituals with partial English glossing.
Date: January 22, 1989
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Preliminary Issues in the Reconstruction of Proto-KokBorok (open access)

Some Preliminary Issues in the Reconstruction of Proto-KokBorok

This is a description of Proto-KokBorok prepared as part of the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with some handwritten notes from Jim Matisoff. Tripura describes regional variation and provides a phoneme inventory, rhyme classes, and correspondences with Bodo.
Date: May 27, 1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Being a Grammar of Kaukborok (Also Known as Tripuri) on Etymological Principles with Special Attention to Influence from the Bengali Language (open access)

Being a Grammar of Kaukborok (Also Known as Tripuri) on Etymological Principles with Special Attention to Influence from the Bengali Language

Draft of the grammar of KokBorok with some placeholders. The grammar describes derivational and inflectional morphology and includes interlinear-glossed text examples.
Date: May 20, 1988
Creator: Jurafsky, Dan; Matisoff, James A. & Tripura, Prashanta
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
KokBorok dictionary drafts and notes (open access)

KokBorok dictionary drafts and notes

Notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are typed drafts of a KokBorok dictionary with notes and questions from the authors to each other. The drafts are organized by initial and rhyme. For some entries, the form is also provided in Bengali (Bng.), Bodo (B.), or the Naitong variety of KokBorok (Ntg.). See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: May 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 131 (open access)

Akha notebook 131

Handwritten notes on Akha grammar including word lists and comments on previous notebooks.
Date: February 1988
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 909 (open access)

Akha notebook 909

Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 1-87, lists of birds mentioned in narratives and seen in the zoo, and comparisons of vernacular and ritual Akha.
Date: 1988-01-19/1999-03-19
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 132 (open access)

Akha notebook 132

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about spirits and rituals with partial English glossing, word lists, and grammar notes on tone and syllable structure.
Date: 1988-01/1989-01-17
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
KokBorok grammar drafts and notes (open access)

KokBorok grammar drafts and notes

Notes from the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are the handwritten and typed drafts of the KokBorok grammar with notes and questions from the authors to each other. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on KokBorok grammar (open access)

Notes on KokBorok grammar

Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. There are word lists of verbs and common nouns and notes from elicitations of grammatical categories including TAM, gender, classifiers, particles, negation, subordinators, and adverbials. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on KokBorok grammar (open access)

Notes on KokBorok grammar

Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. Grammatical notes cover reduplication, compound nouns, verbal particles, and serial verbs. Some notes are in Bengali and other languages. Sociolinguistic and historical notes describe sound changes, regional variation, and the relationships between KokBorok and other Bodo-Garo languages. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta; Jurafsky, Dan & Matisoff, James A.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 130 (open access)

Akha notebook 130

Handwritten notes and comments on previous notebooks.
Date: December 1986
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 134 (open access)

Akha notebook 134

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha narratives, word lists, lecture notes, grammar notes, and notes on terms used in English translations with detailed descriptions of rituals, festivals, the Akha calendar, genealogies, traditional clothing, sacrifices, the agricultural cycle, and taboos. Includes excerpts of the 1988 Thai census demographics.
Date: 1986/1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Layout of a traditional Manipuri house

This is a diagram of the layout of a traditional Meithei house adapted from Chaki-Sircar's 1981 work. This diagram describes traditional customs and includes the Manipuri words for areas of the house.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Image
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" transcript

Performance of the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

Recording of the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star first in Mizo, then in English.
Date: November 18, 1985
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staying comfortable, drinking liquor (open access)

Staying comfortable, drinking liquor

Transcription of the song/chant 'shàziqziq e' indicating tone and a metrical analysis of syllables per line. Includes partial translations.
Date: November 18, 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Song at the swinging festival (open access)

Song at the swinging festival

Lyrics of a song describing the weather and foods eaten during the swinging festival, including a metrical analysis of syllables per line.
Date: November 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 128 (open access)

Akha notebook 128

Handwritten notes and transcriptions about genealogy and death.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 129 (open access)

Akha notebook 129

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of practices associated with death including chants, rituals, and offerings.
Date: July 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation (open access)

Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation

Typed descriptions of Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into 22 chapters including English translations, handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering, and a table of contents summarizing each chapter. Original Akha clauses appear in a numbered list with corresponding English clause-level translations on the following page.
Date: 1984
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 126 (open access)

Akha notebook 126

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə about Akha history, relations with the Shan people, snakes, and monkeys with partial English glossing.
Date: 1984?
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀ (open access)

A Comparison of Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀

Pre-print of a manuscript and dataset later published as a journal article comparing the cognate forms and phoneme inventories of 4 Lolo-Burmese languages: Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀. Includes handwritten notes, examples, and word lists comparing modern forms and Proto-Lolo-Burmese reconstructions.
Date: 1984~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ritual chant (open access)

Ritual chant

Recitation of a njíphà (shaman) describing traditional healing and ritual practices.
Date: 1984
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 122 B (open access)

Akha notebook 122 B

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə, songs for newborn babies, and descriptions of death rituals and sacrificing animals like buffalo and pigs. Includes diagrams of utensils and instruments related to rituals.
Date: 1983-12-09/1983-12-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library