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Performance of a folk song 'Niureng tu'

This Liangmai folk song is composed by Niureng of Lalong village. The present song was sung by Namdibui of Tucha village.
Date: January 22, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Iniu ahuliu'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Liangmai folk singer Niureng of Kalalong village. The current song was sung by Wijotniliu of Rienta village. The song was video recorded in Chakha village.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Tase karia'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Liangmai folk singer Niureng of Kalalong village. The current song was sung by Wijotniliu of Rienta village. The song was recorded in Chakha village.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Ting maleng wang'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Liangmai folk singer Namsongwi. The current song was sung by Wijotniliu of Rienta village. The song was recorded in Chakha village.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Niamning hai ndah'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Liangmai folk singer Kaihuii (Kaiguiyang). The current song was sung by Wijotniliu of Rienta village. The song was recorded in Chakha village.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Niamning tu saojiu'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Liangmai folk singer Kaihuii (Kaiguiyang). The current song was sung by Wijotniliu of Rienta village. The song was recorded in Chakha village.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a joke

This is a recording of Mr. Anwar reciting a joke on the wit of an Indian involved in an argument with an American and a Russian.
Date: January 31, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Nisar
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the folksong Dulahē kī ammā ‘O the bridegroom’s mother’

This is a performance of a traditional song by the title ‘Dulahē kī ammā’ (Eng. O the mother of the bridegroom). In this song, the bridegroom’s mother is asked to bless her son on this auspicious marriage occasion. Such folksongs are of great significance to the community; however, until recently, their popularity and importance have started dwindling because of the penetration of urban culture into rural society. This folksong is in the Eastern dialect of Urdu.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the folksong 'Dulahē tērī ãkhiā̃' 'O bridegroom, your eyes'

This is a performance of a traditional song by the title ‘Dulahē tērī ãkhiā̃’ (Eng. O bridegroom, your eyes) sung on the occasion of marriage. It praises the beauty of the bridegroom and his costume. Such songs are of great significance to the community; however, until recently, their popularity and importance have started dwindling because of the penetration of urban culture into rural society.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
System: The UNT Digital Library

Video recording of driving away the nilgais 'blue bulls'

This is a video recording of Aquil Ahmad, who can be seen driving away from his farms, two nilgais, or the blue bulls, which are large antelopes of the genus Boselaphus, found in northern India. They are a menace to the farmers and their cultivated crops.
Date: January 27, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Rasiāwal recipe

This is a recording of Aquil Ahmad discussing the recipe of 'Rasiāwal', a sweet dish popular in the region prepared by boiling sugarcane along with rice.
Date: January 27, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a drama titled 'gharphū̃kan patōh'

This is a performance of a drama by the title 'gharphū̃̃kan patōh', spendthrift daughter-in-law in English, on the occasion of the Republic Day of India. This drama depicts a typical rural life of the North Indian plains where a woman and her family are very much sick of the misdeeds of the daughter-in-law because she is very spendthrift!
Date: January 26, 2011
Creator: Karmaini Village School
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Uitokpaa and Useen

Recording of Donnu Sankhil telling the story of Uitokpaa and Useen. How the days were being formed. The song of a widow whose house stood alone after all the houses of the villagers sank underground.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of the paradigm of the verb 'push'

Recording of a group elicitation of the paradigm of the verb 'push'.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about traditional uses of gourds

Recording of Sumshot Khular describing traditional uses of gourds.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Raapa Story

Raapa lived with his grandmother and was very obedient. The other men in the village came to hate Raapa because a woman was devoted to him. They decided to kill him. A tiger came by and ate the pig belonging to a widow with 2 daughters. The widow invited the men to kill the tiger, offering a daughter to whoever is successful. No one was able. Raapa asked for some spinning tools to use as a weapon. He applied poison to one and hit the tiger with it. The tiger taunted Raapa before the poison took effect and killed it. Jealous of his success, the other men invited Raapa on a hunting trip, trapping him underground with the hedgehogs.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on the state of language revitalization in Lamkang

Recording at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Lamkang Orthography Workshop. Donnu Sankhil sharing her gratitude in Lamkang and was translated to English by Swamy Ksen to thank the organizers and talk about what is needed for language revitalization.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of directionals

Recording of discussion on directionals at the Don Bosco Center Assam for the Lamkang Orthography Workshop.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Closing Ceremony at Don Bosco

Monologue about the 2nd Lamkang Orthography Workshop and the need for spelling standardization.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Closing speeches from the 2016 Worskhop

Recording of Donnu Sankhil making a closing speech.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Sankhil, Donnu
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on uses and types of Lamkang baskets used by women and men with different purposes.

Recording of Sumshot Khular describing different types of traditional baskets of women and men. The baskets are made from cane and bamboo, bamboo is used as a holder or a support to strengthen the baskets in their design. A knife called tangsi and its holder which is made of bamboo. The video is taken at Sumshot Khular 's house in Thamlakhuren.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library