Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam. The story of a widow who was treated indifferently, but, in return, the villagers who treated her badly got buried in the mudslide. Her house was the lone house that was found standing the next morning.

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.

Recording of the lullaby 'Kano voh,' followed by discussion of the lyrics and other stories, during the Lamkang Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco Institute.

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.

Lamkang elders recite well-known traditional narratives (the origin of Lamkang clans, and a Benglam story) and associated songs, followed by discussion in English. Recorded at the 2nd NSF-funded Lamkang Orthography Workshop held at the Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

Handwritten field notes on Lamkang language including information on paradigms, verb stem alternation, verbless clauses, orthography, tone, inflected determiner clauses, applicatives, case marking, evidentials.

Handwritten notes from an orthography workshop on Lamkang, held in Guwahati, Assam, India. Table of contents in the notebook.

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including verb agreement and Pear Story discussion

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including discussions with Rex and Beshot, notes on verb agreement, directionals, and paradigms for duul 'to push' and iip 'to sleep'.

This record includes a full dataset generated in analysis of recording of Daniel Tholung reciting the story "My Children's Food." This formed the basis for a book published by SIL, written and illustrated by Tony Khular, Joseph Khullar, Rose Khullar, Moses Sankhil, and Mangboi Tholung; and written for a workshop in October 2005 under the guidance of SIL literacy experts at Bosco Reach Out, Guwahati, Assam, India. The translation provided by Daniel Tholung in 2010 was used, with the additional assistance of Sumshot Khular, to annotate the text at UNT in 2016.

Transcription of a retelling of Soombeel paomin (the Story of Soombeel), as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khular at Thamlakhuren village, recorded by Daniel Tholung.

Transcription of Thei chik tboor tun ki suu txhat nah (Blessings from the Thei-chik-tboor tree) as told by Shekarnong Sankhil. A young man, abandoned by his elder brother at the behest of his wife, befriends a young woman. He gifts his prospective parents-in-law with precious items he took from the tiger he killed. The young woman proves herself fit to be his wife by being the only person not to slip on a mat spread out at harvest time.

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.

Transcription of elicitation sessions based on the LLEC word list.

Transcription of an elicitation session of how space is encoded in Lamkang. The sentences were based on those in an LTBA (Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area) article on Qiang languages that was under review at the time of elicitation.

Transcription of an elicitation of optatives in Lamkang. The purpose of the elicitation was to investigate optative verb forms. All sentences are of the type "[X] should give a book to [Y]". Recorded from Lamkang speaker Sumshot Khular at UNT.

Transcription of an elicitation session of the paradigm for the verb 'give'.

Transcription of a blessing ritual called "Smul kpnaak" as performed by Sumshot Khular. This blessing is used by Lamkang elders to mark significant life events for younger couples. It can be performed for getting a blessing for good health, wealth, children, long life and any other blessings.

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Beshot Khullar of Phaaidaam Village.

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Daniel Tholung Thamlakhuren and translated by Sumshot Khular into English and inputting in SayMore.

Transcription of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Kennedy Dilbung of Charangching Khunkha village.