Akha notebook 122 A (open access)

Akha notebook 122 A

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha formulaic expressions and the context where they are used, elicited sentences, and grammar notes.
Date: October 25, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 911 (open access)

Akha notebook 911

Handwritten notes for lectures on the Akha language and culture and fieldwork experience and plans for Akha consultants, colleagues, and related literature.
Date: 2002-01-25/2003-01-28
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of a creation narrative transcript

Analytical discussion of a creation narrative

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam. The story of earth creation and system of the world formation in the olden days narrated by Donnu Sankhil at DBI.
Date: January 25, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of control constructions, part 2 in Lamkang transcript

Analytical discussion of control constructions, part 2 in Lamkang

A recording of discussion of sentences demonstrating verbs which take complement clauses that have either a co-referential object or subject with the main clause. The purpose for the elicitation was to see if the co-referential NP is overt or unexpressed and to see what other morphology shows up in the complement clause.
Date: March 25, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of narrative 358c transcript

Analytical discussion of narrative 358c

Recording of a discussion Totlang K'kam recording at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam. Discussant are Tholung Swamy Ksen, Sumshot Khular, Donnu Sankhil, Rengpu Rex Khullar, with David A. Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: January 25, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of narrative 358d transcript

Analytical discussion of narrative 358d

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.
Date: January 25, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of narrative 358e transcript

Analytical discussion of narrative 358e

Recording of a discussion at the 2016 Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco, Assam.
Date: January 25, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about society in Kokrajhar

Recording of Menokha Brahma Daimary describing the society in Kokrajhar.
Date: August 25, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation at the annual feast in Rinzentangpang

Sonam Wangchuk, Cheten Tshering, and Chador discuss various utensils used in the past when conducting a feast offering. They say their parents share the same ancestral route. Their parents used to borrow utensil feast offerings because they couldn't purchase them. Cheten Tshering shows the new box to keep cups, mugs, and plates when not in use.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation at the annual feast in Rinzentangpang

Mr. Sonam Wangchuck, one of the cooks and sponsors of the annual feast, discusses the preparations for the feast with a group. Seven households from Bamchang and Rinzentangpang villages sponsor the feast every year. Here he is preparing butter tea for the monks involved in feast offerings.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation at the annual feast in Rinzentangpang

Conversation at the annual feast offering, one of the main events for Dakpa communities in Thragom, Rinzentangpang, and Bamchuang. This year, it was held in Rinzentangpang. They use rudimentary stoves to prepare meals. Here they are discussing what meals to serve to the monks and the general public who will come for the blessing, such as dry fish and cheeses.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversations and blessings at the annual feast in Rinzentangpang

Conversations and beginning of the long life blessing by His Eminence Tsheten Zangpo at Rinzentangpang Tshokhang. People discuss the process of receiving a blessing and what they have to offer in return. Some people offer cash as gratitude for the blessing from His Eminence.
Date: May 25, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of harvest process

Recording of Mwnsrang Swargiary describing the process of harvesting.
Date: August 25, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of tea plantations

Recording of Mwnsrang Swargiary describing the process of tea plantation.
Date: August 25, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of the Bwisagu festival

Recording of Sombasi Daimary describing the early tradition of Bwisagu.
Date: August 25, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion about riddles transcript

Discussion about riddles

Recording of Gul Nasreen and Farida Bibi discussing mixed riddles in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: May 25, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of evidential constructions in verbs

This is an elicitation of evidentiality in Zangskari verbal constructions, including tense and aspect. Recorded in Youlang village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: September 25, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of word list about water bodies

This is a short video recording on elicitation of a wordlist about water bodies. The researcher was eliciting words primarily with Seher Aquil and Khalida Bano while both were sitting in the courtyard basking in the afternoon sun. After some time, other family members too come and join in. The participants spoke in the Southern Azamgarhi dialect.
Date: January 25, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz & Khan, Faiza
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical narrative about the origin of local deity Mata Devi captions transcript

Historical narrative about the origin of local deity Mata Devi

Jiya describes the origins of the local deity, Mata Devi, explaining that Mata Devi is associated with Vrindavan instead of Tibet. Jiya was Mata Devi's oracle for many years. The recording was made at Jiya's home in Chhitkul village where Thola peak can be seen in the background.
Date: November 25, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical narrative about trading with Tibet captions transcript

Historical narrative about trading with Tibet

Jiya Lal describes trade with the Tibetans, before the Indo-Chinese war (1962). The recording was made at his home in Chhitkul village.
Date: November 25, 2018
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of Limpi Kisar (open access)

Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of Limpi Kisar

Transcription, translation and linguistic analysis of Gul Nasreen reciting "Limpi Kisar," a popular story in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski. In this popular story Limpi Kisar was married to a woman, and she was stolen on their wedding day by an ogre. He travels up mountains to get his wife back. Transcription done in Burushaski with translations and analysis in English.
Date: May 25, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about health practices

This is an interview about traditional health practices in the Lai community. The interviewee, born in 1969, is originally from Leitak and speaks Leitak, Lautu, Mara, Hakha, Kawl, and English. Interviews were collected as part of the Linguistically Underserved Communities and Health (LUCAH) project, which aims to make health information more accessible and culturally relevant for the Chin refugee community in order to ensure that they are getting clear and accurate information.
Date: May 25, 2021
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library