This is a discussion between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Saleh Noor (a 50-year old female). Taj Nisa talks about the likes and dislikes in her life.

This is a conversation between Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male), Parveen Akhtar (a 60-year old female) and Akbar Jan (a 45-year old female). In this conversation, the speakers talk about the migration of one of their families from the village to Rawalpindi, a metropolitan city in Pakistan. They also talk about the Mankiyali language.

This is a discussion between Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male), Akbar Jan (a 45-year old female) and Shehnaz Bibi (a 24-year old female). The speakers talk about their daily life, their mother tongue, and about the documentation research project on the Mankiyali language.

This is a conversation between Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male) and Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male). Abdul Rehman talks about his visit to Rawalpindi to participate in an engagement ceremony and Abdul Malik talks about a doctor's appointment, his check up, etc.

Khatun Bibi and Sartaj Bibi discuss the daily routines of household chores during the grass cutting season. They also talk about the hardships they face during this particular season. Khatun Bibi is a 51-year old housewife. Sartaj Bibi is a 23 year old housewife.

This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old female) about their eye surgery when they both get operated.

This is a short poem by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male teacher).

These are two small poems by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male). The first one is about FLI (Forum for Language Initiatives); the second one is about a traditional man who brings some stuff to sell.

In this recording, Muhammad Suleman, a 35-year old male teacher, talks about the methods which people in Danna use to clear snow from the rooftops of their homes. Wooden tools are used to brush snow from the roofs of houses when snow builds up on the rooftops. The speaker was born in 1983.

Recording of a story about two brothers in which the elder brother used to oppress the younger brother. The younger brother, by chance, found a magical handmill which made him rich by producing everything that he would demand. The elder brother tried to steal this magical handmill and by his own stupidity and greed he killed himself and also drowned the mill in the river. The contributor Nargis Bibi is a 38-year old housewife.

Recording of a monologue about the hardship of a woman's ancestors before they had electricity and other advanced facilities. She notes that her people are lazy and lack unity now that they have commodities, but her ancestors were strong. The speaker is Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old housewife).

This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about her life, how she got married, subsequent problems and her final coping with them.

This is a conversation between Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and fieldworker Uzma Anjum. The speaker tells how people prepare for the winter in Danna, his village.

This is a historical narrative by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). In this recording, the speaker talks about the journey of the forefathers of the Mankiyal tribe came from Kabul (Afghanistan) to Swat via Peshawar (present-day Pakistan), and then onwards from Swat to Shoshni, a village near their current location Danna. According to this account, the language that they speak today was adopted by their ancestors from the Trawara community. The authenticity of the account is to be investigated.

This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.

This is a monologue (personal narrative) by Muhammad Awaiz about his village.

Recording of a traditional short story in which there was a competition between sleep and air. Eventually, sleep proved more powerful than air. The contributor, Muhammad Suleman. is a 36-year old male teacher from Danna.

This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). In this conversation the speakers traditionally talk about an engagement ceremony which was held in Rawalpindi and one of the speakers traveled to Rawalpindi to attend the ceremony.

This is a conversation between Taj Nisa (a 49-year-old female) and Nargis Bibi (a 40-year-old female). In this conversation, Taj Nisa talks to Nargis Bibi about a surgery she had in the past, and narrates how the doctors and medical staff treated her.

This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). Abdul Malik talks about an incident of his father's life when he was young.

Recording of an elicitation of noun forms based on number and gender to demonstrate the Mankiyali lexical stress patterns in various word forms. In this elicitation, the native speaker, Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher), provides the English word as a prompt and another native speaker, Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) provides the Mankiyali equivalent of that word.