Reading of the Prodigal Son

Beshot Khullar of Phaidam reads the Prodigal Son. A landowner's second son demands his share of the inheritance before the father's death, goes off and squanders it, and returns to his father, who accepts his penitent son. The older brother, however, is upset at his father's acceptance of his returning brother.
Date: May 22, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytic discussion of Escape of the Younger Brother

Recording of analytical discussion of the story of Lamkang with Khungdon Donnu Sankhil and Rengpu Rex Khullar with Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of verb paradigms, part 3

Recording of analytic discussion of verb paradigms at the 2016 Orthography workshop at the Don Bosco Workshop. The discussion was guided by David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah and included Swamy Tholung, Sumshot Khular, Donnu Sankhil, Rex Rengpu Khullar.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of verb paradigms

Recording of analytic discussion of verb paradigms at the 2016 Orthography workshop held at Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rengpu Rex Khullar making a speech about the value of studying Lamkang grammar for revitalization

Recording of the speech made by Rengpu Rex Khullar during the Lamkang Orthography workshop at Don Bosco Institute, how he came to realized the importance of language documentation and revitalization of the Lamkang.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of verb paradigms, part 2

Recording of analytic discussion of verb paradigms at the 2016 Orthography workshop at the Don Bosco Workshop. The discussion was guided by David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah and included Swamy Tholung, Sumshot Khular, Donnu Sankhil, Rex Rengpu Khullar.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Narration of a traditional narrative

Recording of a telling of a traditional narrative at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing the verb paradigm

Recording of verb paradigm discussion with Rengpu Rex Khullar at Don Bosco Institute during the Lamkang Orthography workshop.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion about Sumphaai and Raangleen

Recording of Shobhana Chelliah discussing the Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen with Sumshot Khular and a group of Lamkang speakers.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bwisagi (open access)

Bwisagi

A poem on Boro New year festival Bwisagu included in a mouthpiece of the All Odalguri Silver Jubilee year celebration, Odalguri College, Udalguri held on 15-22, April 2017.
Date: April 22, 2017
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gudi swlwngthaini bitha danaiyao aijwphwrni biphao (open access)

Gudi swlwngthaini bitha danaiyao aijwphwrni biphao

An article on the role of women in educational foundations. A souvenir of BSS, published by the reception committee for of its 59th annual conference held at Khoirabari, Odalguri on 20-22 Jan. 2020.
Date: January 22, 2020
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thunlaini phwtharao Boro aijw (open access)

Thunlaini phwtharao Boro aijw

An article about women writers in a souvenir of the BSS brought out on the occasion of the 50th annual conference held at Bwriguma Phwthar, Odalguri on 19-22 Jan. 2011.
Date: January 22, 2011
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about Boro social customs

Conversation on the social tradition of the Boros. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: December 22, 2010
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about Boro social customs

Conversation on the social tradition of the Boros. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: December 22, 2010
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about college life

Personal narrative about about a college student's hometown, family and friends, and educational institutions.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about social reform by Kalicharan Brahma

This is a conversation on the social reformation movement by Kalicharan Brahma. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: December 22, 2010
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of word list on fuel, flora, and fauna

This is an elicitation of a word list consisting of words related to fire and fuel, flora and fauna in the Central (Zhung) variety of the Zangskari language. Recorded in Youlang village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: September 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of word list on person and the physical universe

This is an elicitation of a word list consisting of numerals, words related to person (body parts, body functions), the physical universe (celestial entities, nature-related objects, and events), house and household items, farm and farming equipment, and food items in the Central (Zhung) variety of the Zangskari language. Recorded in Youlang village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: September 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical narrative about trade relations with Tibet captions transcript

Historical narrative about trade relations with Tibet

Jaswant Singh discusses his experience trading with the Tibetans. He did this once a year for six years, before the Indo-Chinese war in 1962 drastically restricted trade with Tibetans. The recording was made in Khrogla, located three kilometers further down Rakchham village.
Date: November 22, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of Sadaf Munshi with Khawaja Rehman & participants of linguistic workshop

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with Prof. Khawaja Rehman (linguist) and two participants of linguistic planning workshop for native speakers held at the Forum For Languages Initiative (FLI), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of verb paradigms, part 1

Recording of analytic discussion of verb paradigms at the 2016 Orthography workshop at the Don Bosco Workshop. The discussion was guided by David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah and included Swamy Tholung, Sumshot Khular, Donnu Sankhil, Rex Rengpu Khullar.
Date: January 22, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation with Irfan Ahmad Usmani about language, Chāndpūr village, and relatives (in Urdu)

This is a conversation in (Pharaī) Chāndpūr village situated in the Maū district of UP, between Irfan Ahmad Usmani, Maaz Shaikh and his uncle Saeeduz Zafar Ali. The conversation begins with a discussion on the variety of Azamgarhi spoken in this village and continues to the Azamgarhi language and thereafter to the different local vernaculars spoken in Eastern UP and Bihar. Further, Mr. Usmani describes the village, its iconic location due to it being situated near the banks of a tributary (Pharaī in Azamgarhi) of the Ghāgrā river, and its unique tongue. Then, the conversation moves on to a discussion on relatives. Later on, his sister too joins the conversation.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discussion on languages of the Purvanchal region of UP and Urdu

This is a discussion about the language and language varieties spoken in the districts of the Pūrvānchal region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, such as Maū, Balliā, and Āzamgaṛh. The speaker Mr. Maqsood Khan initiates with a short monologue on the election season in his mother tongue Bhojpuri spoken in his village Jogarī. He then proceeds to the varieties spoken in the region as he seems to have excellent knowledge on the same. The monologue then turns into a discussion about the differences of culture and language of Āzamgaṛh and Maū. It then shifts to the state of Urdu in India.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation on the language of Rampur with Mr. Akhlaque (in Urdu)

This is a conversation primarily with Mr. Akhlaque. After recording some conversations in Rāmpūr village, the researcher learns the language of the Muslims to be Bhojpuri and almost the same as that of the Hindu population, unlike that in Fatehpūr. He then moves near to Mr. Akhlaque to enquire about this. Mr. Jameel then joins the conversation and adds his opinion on the ongoing topic.
Date: November 22, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library