Akha notebook 76 (open access)

Akha notebook 76

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of a conversation about a visit to Denmark.
Date: November 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 78 (open access)

Akha notebook 78

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about a book on Denmark and the thieves of Sunwaddhanathan.
Date: November 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 107 (open access)

Akha notebook 107

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of the traditional narrative shà ziq ziq ə.
Date: 1978-11-01/1978-11-14
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 108 (open access)

Akha notebook 108

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of the traditional narrative shà ziq ziq ə and others.
Date: 1978-11-10/1978-11-19
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 111 (open access)

Akha notebook 111

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha proverbs, conversations, and word lists of multi-word expressions.
Date: 1978-11-15/1978-11-20
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion on Mankiyali syllable structure transcript

Analytical discussion on Mankiyali syllable structure

Recording of a discussion about permissible consonant clusters in Mankiyali. The purpose is to analyze the structure of the Mankiyali syllable. The contributors are: Aurangzeb -- a 34-year old male and a teacher by profession, and Gohar-Ur Rehman -- a 38 year old male and a retail shop owner by profession.
Date: November 22, 2019
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical:  Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB6 (open access)

Analytical: Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB6

Handwritten notes of verb paradigms in Lamkang by Daniel Tholung when discussing verb paradigms with Willem de Reuse at the University of North Texas.
Date: November 30, 2009
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archive and database architecture and usability

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation discusses the use of a database for language archiving through the example of Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Caplow, Nancy J.; Khular, Sumshot & Willis Oko, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bal Raj Negi's occupations captions transcript

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: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collecting pine leaves in Rakchham captions transcript

Collecting pine leaves in Rakchham

Meena discusses pine leaves in Rakchham, which she happened to collect on the day of this recording. The recording was made at Rupin River View Hotel.
Date: November 27, 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

Computational Resource for South Asian Languages

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages project.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about a fire in Rakchham village captions transcript

Conversation about a fire in Rakchham village

Vinod Kumar Negi and Narayan Bhagat discuss the fire incident that took place in Rakchham in 2002 which resulted in a number of houses and part of the temple being burned down. The recording was made at Rupin River View Hotel (inside the restaurant), located at the entrance of Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about childhood in Rakchham village captions transcript

Conversation about childhood in Rakchham village

Meena and Seema discuss their childhood together, focusing on the local school. The conversation was very intense and emotional. The recording was made at Meena's house in Rakchham village.
Date: November 24, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about local deities captions transcript

Conversation about local deities

Shudha Bhakti and Radha Devi discuss two local deities in Rakchham village, Shiv and Bhagwati. The recording was made at Shudha's home in Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about local dishes captions transcript

Conversation about local dishes

Shudha Bhakti and Radha Devi discuss local dishes from Rakchham village. The recording was made at Shudha's home in Rakchham village.
Date: November 21, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about preserving Chhitkul-Rakchham captions transcript

Conversation about preserving Chhitkul-Rakchham

Chet and Yashvir discuss the following prompt: "Is the Chhitkul-Rakchham language endangered, and, if yes, what should be done to preserve it?" The recording was done outside at Rakchham's Government Senior Secondary School, where they both work.
Date: November 22, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the Boi Festival in Rakchham village captions transcript

Conversation about the Boi Festival in Rakchham village

Ranjeet Singh and Khazan Singh Thakur discuss the week’s event at the temple, which consist of gathering grains and cereals from the village’s inhabitants for cases of emergencies. The recording was made inside Rakchham's main temple. There is some background noise as several community members were present. The speakers are sitting in front of one of the storage unit, the doors of which are wooden and beautifully carved.
Date: November 23, 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
Description of a local dish 'hɔt' captions transcript

Description of a local dish 'hɔt'

Gangaa describes and demonstrates how to make a local and healthy dish called 'hɔt'. This dish was chosen because it is healthy and easy to make. The recording was made in Gangaa's kitchen at the Amar Guest House.
Date: November 26, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Description of winter in Rakchham village captions transcript

Description of winter in Rakchham village

Seema describes winter in Rakchham and how she keeps herself busy. The recording was made at Rupin River View Hotel in Rakchham.
Date: November 27, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing infrastructure for interoperating digital language archives

Keynote for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This keynote presentation explores the strategies of separation of concerns and automation of services in developing an infrastructure for interoperation that can break serious bottlenecks in scaling up the submission of new materials and the use of already archived materials.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Simons, Gary F.
Object Type: Presentation
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