Elicitation of imperatives and other sentence types transcript

Elicitation of imperatives and other sentence types

Recording of an elicitation of imperatives and other sentence types in Mankiyali. The imperative, negative imperative, and present habitual forms were elicited using English sentences as prompts. Quantifiers are also elicited in this session. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: October 11, 2019
Creator: Accord, Levi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of question words and interrogative sentences transcript

Elicitation of question words and interrogative sentences

Recording of an elicitation of interrogative sentences in Mankiyali. Several sentences were elicited in which various question words were gathered. The contributor is Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher.
Date: October 3, 2019
Creator: Accord, Levi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of prosodic words

Levi Accord and Amber Winston record a list of prosodic words in Lamkang with speaker Sumshot Khular. This recording was done as part of the LING 5300 Phonology course at UNT.
Date: October 27, 2017
Creator: Accord, Levi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a life incident of Abdul Malik

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This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). Abdul Malik talks about an incident of his father's life when he was young.
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a surgery

This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year-old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year-old female). In this conversation, Taj Nisa talks to Nargis Bibi about a surgery she had in the past, and narrates how the doctors and medical staff treated her.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit

This is a conversation between Atta-ur Rehman (a 37-year old male teacher) and Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) about a visit to Punja Gali, a tourist spot located in district Mansehra of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit to Kashmir

This is a conversation between Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male driver) and Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male government servant) about Naik Muhammad's recent visit to Kashmir.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit to Rawalpindi

This is a conversation between Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male) and Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male). Abdul Rehman talks about his visit to Rawalpindi to participate in an engagement ceremony and Abdul Malik talks about a doctor's appointment, his check up, etc.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about an engagement ceremony

This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). In this conversation the speakers traditionally talk about an engagement ceremony which was held in Rawalpindi and one of the speakers traveled to Rawalpindi to attend the ceremony.
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about annual grass cutting

Khatun Bibi and Sartaj Bibi discuss the daily routines of household chores during the grass cutting season. They also talk about the hardships they face during this particular season. Khatun Bibi is a 51-year old housewife. Sartaj Bibi is a 23 year old housewife.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about eye surgery

This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old female) about their eye surgery when they both get operated.
Date: February 7, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about preparations for winter

This is a conversation between Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and fieldworker Uzma Anjum. The speaker tells how people prepare for the winter in Danna, his village.
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the life routine of Taj Nisa

This is a discussion between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Saleh Noor (a 50-year old female). Taj Nisa talks about the likes and dislikes in her life.
Date: February 7, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of clearing snow from roofs

In this recording, Muhammad Suleman, a 35-year old male teacher, talks about the methods which people in Danna use to clear snow from the rooftops of their homes. Wooden tools are used to brush snow from the roofs of houses when snow builds up on the rooftops. The speaker was born in 1983.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion about migeration to Rawalpindi

This is a conversation between Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male), Parveen Akhtar (a 60-year old female) and Akbar Jan (a 45-year old female). In this conversation, the speakers talk about the migration of one of their families from the village to Rawalpindi, a metropolitan city in Pakistan. They also talk about the Mankiyali language.
Date: February 5, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion about the Mankiyali language

This is a discussion between Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male), Akbar Jan (a 45-year old female) and Shehnaz Bibi (a 24-year old female). The speakers talk about their daily life, their mother tongue, and about the documentation research project on the Mankiyali language.
Date: February 5, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Historical narrative about the tribe of Mankiyal

This is a historical narrative by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). In this recording, the speaker talks about the journey of the forefathers of the Mankiyal tribe came from Kabul (Afghanistan) to Swat via Peshawar (present-day Pakistan), and then onwards from Swat to Shoshni, a village near their current location Danna. According to this account, the language that they speak today was adopted by their ancestors from the Trawara community. The authenticity of the account is to be investigated.
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about a woman and two kidnappers

This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about a woman who lives with her two daughters. One day two men come to the said woman's home at night and try to kidnap her. She kills the kidnappers and gets a prize the next day.
Date: January 29, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about the speaker's native village

This is a monologue (personal narrative) by Muhammad Awaiz about his village.
Date: February 3, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life

Recording of a monologue about the hardship of a woman's ancestors before they had electricity and other advanced facilities. She notes that her people are lazy and lack unity now that they have commodities, but her ancestors were strong. The speaker is Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old housewife).
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a poem about a happy life

This is a poem by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male). In this poem he says that the whole world is like our home, we should live a happy life by co-operating with each other.
Date: March 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a poem about reaping what you sow

This is a short poem by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male teacher).
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a prayer to god

This poem is a prayer to god by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male).
Date: March 12, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of poems about FLI and an itinerant merchant

These are two small poems by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male). The first one is about FLI (Forum for Language Initiatives); the second one is about a traditional man who brings some stuff to sell.
Date: February 9, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
System: The UNT Digital Library