Elicitation of tone words in Lamkang (C-E)

Shobhana elicits tone individual words from Sumshot Khular, words C through E.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of paradigm of 'give'

Recording of Shobhana Chelliah eliciting the verb paradigm of 'give' with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lamkang Customary Law (open access)

The Lamkang Customary Law

Text of laws for the Lamkang Tribe, as of the Lamkang National Council General meeting on September 20, 1995.
Date: April 1996
Creator: Lamkang National Council
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bwisagi (open access)

Bwisagi

A poem on Boro New year festival Bwisagu included in a mouthpiece of the All Odalguri Silver Jubilee year celebration, Odalguri College, Udalguri held on 15-22, April 2017.
Date: April 22, 2017
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Odalguri dokhara ABWWFni sungdo sanreb (open access)

Odalguri dokhara ABWWFni sungdo sanreb

A brief history of ABWWF/Odalguri AC included in a mouthpiece (vol.1) of the ABWWF/Odalguri AC brought out on the occasion of its 9th Annual conference held at Sijouguri, Odalguri.
Date: April 6, 2013
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on inclusive, exclusive, and ditransitives

Elicitation on inclusive, exclusive, and ditransitives. Recorded in Old Bagbahar.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on verb stem alternation

Elicitation on verb stem alternation in transitive, intransitive, imperative, and causative forms. Recorded in Old Bagbahar.
Date: April 23, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on tone

Elicitation of a word list on tone. Recorded in Old Bagbahar.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on person marking

Elicitation on person marking. Recorded in Old Bagbahar.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on person marking

Elicitation on person marking. Recorded in Old Bagbahar.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on languages on Northeast India (open access)

Notes on languages on Northeast India

Handwritten notes on several langues of Northeast India in Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh. Includes lists of languages, language name variants, hand drawn maps, and basic demographics of language communities. Notes on classification compare how the Linguistic Survey of India, Robert Schafer, and Geoffrey Marrison group these languages.
Date: April 2004
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Consent and speaker background: Faka Aimol

Consent and speaker background of Faka Aimol including education, languages spoken, and places lived. Recorded in Balisor, Silchar, Assam, India.
Date: April 30, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation on verb stem alternation

Elicitation on verb stem alternation. Recorded in Balisor, Silchar, Assam, India.
Date: April 30, 2023
Creator: Saikia, Anujeema
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of words with open long syllables (1)

Recording of This is an elicitation of words with open long syllables (CVV) in different positions. The purpose is to determine the relative weight of open long syllables for primary word stress placement. Ali Khan is a male teacher who is 31 years old at the time of recording.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Aurangzeb
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of words with closed long syllables

Recording of an elicitation of words with closed long syllables (CVVC) in different positions. The purpose is to determine the relative weight of closed long syllables for primary word stress placement. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Aurangzeb
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog

This a traditional story about an elderly couple with a dog; the wife dies and the dog takes the husband to Chom arong (i.e., the village of the dead); the wife does not want to leave, but the husband forces her; upon return to their village, soon somebody else in the village dies, and the wife has to die and go back to Chom arong with the other person.
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on a crying child

This is a monologue on the (traditional) everyday situation of a mother having a baby to take care of while having to perform other chores such as getting firewood and cooking (not considered a true folk story by language consultants).
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat

This is a traditional story about a couple, in which the husband tricks his wife in order to get her to give him meat to eat. He carves a hole into a tree and pretends to be a scary big black bird and tells his wife to feed the big black bird. After the wife has fed the big black bird (i.e., her husband) all of their chickens, the husband himself tells her to look inside the hole the next time around, which she does. Upon recognizing her husband, the wife is angry and tells him she will separate from him and go to stay with her parents. She collects all her things into a big basket. The husband sneaks himself into the basket, and as the wife is on the way carrying the basket, the husband urinates. As if it had not been enough already before, the wife now leaves him with even angrier than before.
Date: April 1, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of cleaning and washing

This is a description of the important status of cleanliness in Karbi culture.
Date: April 2, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of cooking alkaline food

This is a description of cooking alkaline food by burning jhum fields and using the ashes.
Date: April 2, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of cooking alkaline food: part 2

This is a description of cooking alkaline food by burning jhum fields and using the ashes.
Date: April 2, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger

This a traditional story about an orphan who encounters a tiger; by using a container with a mirror on top, he manages to convince the tiger that he (the orphan) has caught a large tiger in that container; the tiger is scared and the orphan ends up managing to steal gold from the tigers’ Rongker (= the name of a ceremony in Karbi traditional culture) due to his trick with the mirror container. Chikari Tisso was an active listener during the recording of this text. All of his backchanneling as well as clarification questions and other remarks are included in this transcription, signaled by{curly brackets}.
Date: April 10, 2010
Creator: Konnerth, Linda
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the story "The Stepmother," part 2 transcript

Conversation about the story "The Stepmother," part 2

Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt discuss the story of the Stepmother.
Date: April 19, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of the paradigm for the verb 'give' transcript

Elicitation of the paradigm for the verb 'give'

Sumshot Khular, Shobhana Chelliah, and Tyler Utt review the conjugation of 'give'.
Date: April 2, 2016
Creator: Khular, Sumshot & Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library