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Elicitation of word list on numerals and body parts

This is an elicitation of a word list consisting of numerals (mainly cardinal and some ordinal) and a few body parts in the Central (Zhung) variety of the Zangskari language. Recorded in Youlang village, Ladakh Union Territory, India.
Date: September 20, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Sanjib Laobangdisa describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Nagamese, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 46 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Creator: Barman, Animesh
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Sadhan Barman describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a worker who speaks Bengali, Hindi, Manipuri, English, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. He is 51 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Creator: Barman, Animesh
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

Usha Rani Barman describes her experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a retired teacher who speaks Bengali, Hindi, and Assamese in addition to Dimasa. She is 70 years old at the time of recording.
Date: October 20, 2022
Creator: Barman, Animesh
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Tudon sing'

This Liangmai folk song was composed by Songkambou of Tudon village and sung by Kiwangbou.
Date: May 20, 2012
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Story about a king and a cat

This is a very short bedtime story of a king and a cat narrated in a rhyming pattern. These type of stories are told to lull and amuse small children.
Date: July 20, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about home life and school

This is a narrative about the speaker's hometown, friends and family, and educational institutions.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letter to a family member

Recording of a personal letter to a family member about Chhingi's daughter, Nutei.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letter to a family member

Recording of a personal letter to a family member.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letter to a family member

Recording of a personal letter to a family member.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on a neighbor from Burma

Recording of Thangpuii, Lalnunthangi Chhangte's paternal grandmother, recounting memories from her childhood. When she was younger, a Lai neighbor from Burma had a ceremony that was interesting to her because it was from a different culture. She learned about headhunting, and a war that happened between north and south Mizoram during the mid-1800s. She says people go to war because they believe whoever you kill in life becomes your slave in the afterlife. Finally, she discusses getting married to her husband.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Thangpuii
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on childhood in Mizoram

Recording of Thangpuii, Lalnunthangi Chhangte's paternal grandmother, describing her childhood in Mizoram, including the clothing she wore, her siblings, and how she resembled her parents.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Thangpuii
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letter to a family member

Recording of a personal letter to a family member about when they plan to come home for a visit.
Date: November 20, 1985
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the Totlang Kam Festival transcript

Conversation about the Totlang Kam Festival

Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar talk about the Totlang Kam Festival. The exchange is useful for cultural information, lexical items related to this important festival, and question and answer exchanges. Rengpu Rex Khullar accompanied his father Beshot Khullar to Chennai to share information on Lamkang with Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 20, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with W. A. Henderson, September 20, 2003 transcript

Oral History Interview with W. A. Henderson, September 20, 2003

Interview with W. A. (Bill) Henderson, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his time as a bombardier and navigator on a B-24 in the China-Burma-India Theater. His crew hit the bridge over River Kwai (Mae Klong) while making bombing runs along the Burma Railway and also flew runs to supply gasoline to various bases in China, India and Burma. He relates anecdotes about the food and living quarters on the bases and the time he saved his co-pilot's life. He helped his co-pilot land the plane after a bullet tore through the plane's nose wheel and injured the man's leg.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Johnson, Kep & Henderson, W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History