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Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives about death.

This is a collection of texts in Kom including folklore and histories of relation between Kom and groups in surrounding areas such as Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tripura.

Handwritten notes and English translations of Akha songs and narratives about animals, opium, love, nature, and spirits originally transcribed in Akha notebooks 18-87.

Recording of a discussion on directionals 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 participants at the 2016 Orthography workshop focusing on spelling preferences.

Recording of Shobhana Chelliah eliciting directional and demonstratives. With Donnu Sankhil, Tholung Swamy Ksen, and Sumshot Khular at Thamlakhuren village.

A discussion between Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt of the causative construction and the verb 'give'. This elicitation was recorded in the Linguistic conference room at Discovery Park, UNT.

Tyler Utt eliciting intransitive optatives with Sumshot Khular. Recorded at Linguistics conference room, College of Information.

Melissa Robinson eliciting minimal pairs with frames with Sumshot Khular at the recording booth at UNT.

Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs with Sumshot Khular.

Recording of several Lamkang verbs in a frame and in isolation by Sumshot Khular. The recording was made when Khular was a visiting scholar at the University of North Texas. A full transcript is available with PRAAT annotations is available.

Melissa Robinson eliciting the tones of various verbs with Sumshot Khular.

Melissa elicits verbs with suffixes from Sumshot Khular.

Recording of inflected verbs in a frame: In the Lamkang language we say "__".

A description of the origin of the Judima festival recorded in Halfong village.

Personal narrative of Hemari Phonglo, a child in class 2. She describes her school and friends.

Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs in a frame with Sumshot Khular.

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.

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.

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.