Rengting Shilshi of Angbrasu village talks about his education and mission work. The recording was done at the Lamkang Naga Baptist Association Centre in Thamlakhuren by Sumshot Khular as part of the Firebird Foundation Anthropological Research Project collection

Melissa Robinson eliciting possessive constructions with Sumshot Khular.

This is a recording of a conversation while cleaning fishes. There was some conversation between women who were cleaning fishes. In order to get natural data, Maaz goes near to them, sits, and starts recording without alerting them. Suddenly as few seconds pass, one of them alerts, and everyone takes a surprise! But a few moments later, they become comfortable with it. They then start imitating and mocking the far northern variety of Azamgarhi spoken in Dewārā, the flood plain area of the Ghaghra river in the northern part of Azamgarh.

This is a discussion on the popular irrigation systems used in Azamgarh and nearby areas of Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh state, before the invention of tube wells. This discussion briefly also extends to farming systems and agricultural tools. This discussion was primarily between the researcher and two residents of southern Azamgarh who were distant relatives to the researcher. It took place almost entirely in Urdu, whereas some background noises can be frequently heard in Azamgarhi.

This is a recording of a conversation on ladies’ clothes and design between four women, among whom one was sewing clothes.