Reading of reduplicated forms

Sumshot Khular records a number of phrases with reduplicated modifiers. Rick Weitzman uses a prompt list to record these utterances with the speaker as part of a Phonology course at UNT in Fall 2017.
Date: October 3, 2017
Creator: Weitzman, Rick
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Sumphaai and Rangleen, Part 1

Sumphai leh Rangleng [Sumphai and Rangleng] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of of Thamlakhuren, Part 1. Sumphai was a hardworking sister of Rangleng, but she was despised by the lazy wife of Rangleng, who nagged her husband into selling her off so that they could be alone. As the husband went to sell Sumphai, while they spent the night in a riverbank, the sister Sumphai had a dream in which their mother appeared. The mother was talking to the brother and asking him what on earth he was doing. The mother told him not sell his sister but to go back home. When Sumphai recalled her dream to her brother, he was even more furious and took a strong stand to sell her off.
Date: August 18, 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about the Squirrel and Rumnu narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu

Theipaa leh rumnu paomin [The Story of Squirrel and Rumnu] as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. Squirrel [Theipa] pretended that he fell down and hurt his scrotum and so could not walk. He therefore asked Rumnu to carry him in her basket which was full of fig-like fruit [didit]. When she carried him in her basket, he ate up all the figlike fruit and jumped out of her basket and ran off. She was so angry that she cursed him so that he would be trapped in the traps set by people in olden times. Then while he was running, an insect [Uisoom] caught him. So Rumnu asked Uisoon to please keep catching Theipa the squirrel. Rumnu said, “I will weave for you these kinds of cloth, a diphun, a vausen, a diir, a pundum, a kniksen, a yeb, a kniktxil. While Theipa was still in the grip so Uisoon, Rumnu then caught hold of him and beat him to her heart's content. So the story ends, but it is believed that this is how the weaving of different patterns and design of the present day attire came about.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of The Story of the Lamkang Hunter

Lamkang Suk Paomin [The story of the Lamkang Hunter] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu. This is a story of how a Lamkang man who was a an expert hunter was captured and enslaved by the Kukis. When they planned to kill him, he was encouraged by his wife to escape. A tiger helped him cross the river and eventually return home to be united with his children.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of The Story of When There Is No Graveyard

Wangchen paomin [The Story of When there is No Graveyard] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of of Thamlakhuren. In this story, a woman marries and lives in a village that has no graveyard. She ends up marrying into this village and here they eat a person when they die.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retellings of traditional narratives by elders

Shangchrek Tholung narrated the Raalngam story, Arthluk and Raangchal. The second story of Raapaa by Shetphong Sankhil. The third story by Swamy Tholung Ksen the story Arthluk and Raangchal.
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Vau Sen -A song nature thanking God for his wonderful creation

Sumshot Khular singing Vau Sen, a song about nature, mountains, hills, trees. wind, water, stars, moon, clouds and all the wonderful creation of the creator God. Calling youths of today, let us rise up to save the environment. Composed by Tony Khular of Thamlakhuren village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of words and names for gemination

Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with the '=a' enclitic from Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word. After the word list, Sumshot reads a list of personal names with the enclitic '=u' on them. In this version, target words and names do not occur in a frame sentence. This was part of the Fall 2017 LING 5300 Phonology course.
Date: November 14, 2017
Creator: Burke, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

Retelling of Pear Story in Lamkang by Robert Leivon in New Delhi 2009
Date: 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of the Squirrel Story

A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.
Date: May 17, 2008
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Benglam

Retelling of a Benglam story, as narrated by Mary Sankhil.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of Thamptlum

The Thamptlum paomin [the Story of Thamptlum] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of Thamlakhuren. The story tells of how a snake married a woman. Translated into English and input in SayMore by Sumshot Khular.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speech given at LNBA Fellowship meeting

Recording of a speech by Joy Tholung at the LNBA Fellowship at Thamlapokpi Village in Chandel District.
Date: January 30, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Raapa

Raapa Paomin [The Story of Raapa] as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. This is a story about a young handsome man called Raapa. He was the son of a widow. He was known for his good deeds and for that people got jealous and tried to kill him in several ways. One time they hung him up in the middle of the sea to die, but to his great luck a bird called Chinraang came along wearing beautiful ornament called vori kangkool. This ornament is worn by Lamkangs today. When Raapa saw the bird he started to swing back and forth and sing. On seeing this, the bird came under his spell and wanted to ride the swing. The bird then requested Raapa to let him swing. Raapa allowed the bird to do that and in return the bird allowed Raapa to wear the vori kangkool. Raapa returned home wearing the beautiful ornament. The people there liked the ornament and when they asked him about it he responded that he got it from the sea and all the people rushed to the sea and died in search of a similar ornament. An old lady later came to ask Raapa why …
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
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

Retelling of the Pear Story: Kennedy

A retelling of the Pear Story as recorded in Hyderabad with young speakers in the diaspora.
Date: June 9, 2017
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel

Recording of Shangchrek Tholung reciting a popular traditional narrative. Collected at Swamy Tholung's house who introduces the event and asks questions of the narrator.
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone and syllable structure

A recording of minimal pairs distinguished by tone and organized by syllable structure, including the segment features in onsets and codas.
Date: March 25, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of speech acts

Shekarnong Sankhil and Daniel Tholung discuss various speech acts at a UNT Field Methods class in Fall 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about how the Lamkang name their children

How the Lamkang name their children as explained by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of traditional burials

Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi Village talks to Shobhana Chelliah about how the Lamkang traditionally carried out burials.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative about The Bad Woman and Good Woman

Skinyernu and Penpenjur [The Bad Woman and Good Woman] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. In this story, a lady who was very good and industrious, Penpenjur, was killed by a bad woman, Skinyernu. Later Skinyernu played the role of the wife of Penpenjur, whom she had killed. However, the first wife, Penpenjur, was reborn to fight with the bad woman. The good woman won the fight, but the good woman killed again with the poison from the banana leaf that was used to wrap a food pack, a banana that grew out of the bad woman. In the end of the story, the husband and wife met in the land of the death, but as they were to go to their final destiny, the man laughed and this caused them to be separated. In order to get around being separated, they grew as two separate but joined at the upper branches, like a tree and climber.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone in minimal pairs

Tone in minimal pairs organized by rhymes -- Sumshot Khular in discussion with Tyler P. Utt, Willem de Reuse and Shobhana Chelliah
Date: March 25, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library