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Akha notebook 70 (open access)

Akha notebook 70

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and narratives about death, creation, opium, a person with no sons, a bird and grasshopper, a boy who gets a spirit's hat, and dreams.
Date: 1977?
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Personal narrative on a crazy man (open access)

Transcription: Personal narrative on a crazy man

Transcription and free English translation of the recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan, a speaker of Srinagar Burushaski, narrating the story of a crazy man. Among the audiences present during the event is Khan's daughter, Salma. The story is more of a personal account as the narrator has witnessed the events during his lifetime.
Date: 2016
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue on the history of Hoper Nager (open access)

Transcription: Monologue on the history of Hoper Nager

Transcription and translation of the recording of Muhammad Jabir, a speaker of Nagar Burushaski, narrating the history of Hoper Nagar.
Date: 2012
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue on Misgar Valley (open access)

Transcription: Monologue on Misgar Valley

Transcription of Pari Nimo reciting a historical narrative and poem about the Misgar valley in the Hunza dialect. “Misgar Valley” explains a little bit about who came to Misgar from Baltit. Transcription is done in Burushaski with translations in English.
Date: May 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
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
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.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field notes from elicitations (open access)

Field notes from elicitations

Field notes from elicitations of common nouns (body parts, family members, colors, natural objects) and sentence structure. Sentence examples demonstrate negation, interrogatives, conditionals, and pronouns in Raji.
Date: 1998/2004
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 67 (open access)

Akha notebook 67

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and narratives about siblings, creation, competition, and swinging.
Date: June 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 68 (open access)

Akha notebook 68

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about marriage, spirits, thieves, and villages splitting.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 59 (open access)

Akha notebook 59

Handwritten notes and transcription of an origin story. The story was originally recorded in Chiang Mai in 1977 from Akha speaker Mɔ́ Dâng when they were in their 40s. Additional notes were added in 2015.
Date: 1977?
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 61 (open access)

Akha notebook 61

Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative about Mɔ Hỳ and Mɔ Njí. Additional notes were added in 1987.
Date: April 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 63 (open access)

Akha notebook 63

Handwritten notes and transcription of narratives about a snake in paradise, a dog and pig, gambling, hunting, spirits, tigers, and a man with a goiter.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 64 (open access)

Akha notebook 64

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about the man with the goiter, the daughter and the sickle, the daughter who didn't want to teethe, Akha priests, and vampires.
Date: June 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 62 (open access)

Akha notebook 62

Handwritten notes and transcription of narratives about honesty and a snake in paradise.
Date: April 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 69 (open access)

Akha notebook 69

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about the sun and moon and shamans.
Date: September 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 38 (open access)

Akha notebook 38

Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 39 (open access)

Akha notebook 39

Handwritten notes on Akha grammar including simple and complex sentences and verb paradigms taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 34 (open access)

Akha notebook 34

Handwritten notes and transcription of the traditional narrative À Sjhag Sjhág about an old man. These notes were taken during sessions with Mae Kham, an Akha consultant from Thailand around 45 years old at the time.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 33 (open access)

Akha notebook 33

Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative about a man with no wife. These notes were taken during sessions with Mae Kham, an Akha consultant from Thailand around 45 years old at the time.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 37 (open access)

Akha notebook 37

Handwritten notes and transcription of a traditional narrative. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa paomin (the Squirrel Story), as told by Bunghon Sankhil of Keithelmanbi Lamkang village in Chandel District Manipur.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 30 (open access)

Akha notebook 30

Handwritten notes on daily life in an Akha village including building houses, social customs, and hunting. When a house is built, a dog, chicken, or goat may be killed as an offering. The dogs reared in the village are only killed in winter, otherwise there is bad luck for hunters. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 31 (open access)

Akha notebook 31

Handwritten notes on daily life in an Akha village including building houses, social customs, and hunting. Includes diagrams of an Akha house. These notes were taken during sessions with an Akha consultant in Copenhagen.
Date: 1974
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
System: The UNT Digital Library