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Conversation about why linguists record conversations

Recording of a discussion among Harimohon Thounaojam, Rex Khullar, and Beshot Khullar about why linguists record conversations.
Date: May 17, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of the Prodigal Son

Beshot Khullar of Phaidam reads the Prodigal Son. A landowner's second son demands his share of the inheritance before the father's death, goes off and squanders it, and returns to his father, who accepts his penitent son. The older brother, however, is upset at his father's acceptance of his returning brother.
Date: May 22, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of reduplication

Discussion of reduplication with positive and negative connotations in Lamkang. Discussant are Beshot Khullar, Rengpu Rex Khullar and Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 24, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of the Escape of the Younger Brother

Rex Khullar reads a connected text "Escape of the Younger Brother." This is a sample text provided in the sketch on Lamkang in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. The text was later re-recorded with corrections and commentary by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of the Squirrel Story

A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.
Date: May 17, 2008
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Benglam

Beshot Khullar tells a Benglam story. The retelling was for Shobhana Chelliah with Rex Khullar in attendance.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about traditional tools

A review of how some foods are cooked and naming of traditional tools by Beshot Khullar using a picture stimulus from a magazine called the "Souvenir".
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel

The traditional narrative Theipaa Paomin [the Squirrel story] as told by Beshot Khullar.
Date: May 16, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of Lamkang proverbs

Recording of a translation and discussion of Lamkang proverbs with conversation about the process in Manipuri (Meiteiron).
Date: May 5, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language with a table of contents.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of possession transcript

Elicitation of possession

Sumshot Khular provides nouns with possessive prefixes. This list was used to measure the length of the reduced prefix syllable in different phonetic contexts.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional story about Benglam transcript

Traditional story about Benglam

Rex Khullar tells a Benglam Story. In this one, Benglam was sitting on a tree with the intention of cutting it down. He cut the the tree trunk he was sitting on and fell to the ground.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of ideophones and reduplication transcript

Analytical discussion of ideophones and reduplication

Examples of ideophones and reduplication with Rengpu Rex Khullar and Beshot Khullar
Date: May 24, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of tone list and minimal pairs transcript

Reading of tone list and minimal pairs

Tone list and minimal pairs offered and read by Rex Khullar
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on documentation done on Lamkang transcript

Monologue on documentation done on Lamkang

Beshot Khullar from Phaidaam Pantha reflects on the work that has been done on Lamkang to date, expresses concern for what knowledge is being lost, and requests and thanks Shobhana Chelliah for her work on Lamkang. He mentions a Bible verse of blessings that he quotes from Psalms 126:5-6: "Those who sow in tears, shall reap with songs of joy."
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative of a harrowing flight from Manipur to Delhi transcript

Personal narrative of a harrowing flight from Manipur to Delhi

Grace Sankhil of Phaidaam (previously known as P. Pantha) has a house guest who recounts her harrowing flight from Manipur to Delhi
Date: May 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on play-by-play description of imagined soccer game transcript

Monologue on play-by-play description of imagined soccer game

Improvised play-by-play description of imagined soccer game in Manipuri (Meiteiron) by Harimohon Thounaojam
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussion of Laa kthee transcript

Discussion of Laa kthee

Discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: May 23, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of SIL word list transcript

Reading of SIL word list

Shobhana Chelliah and Tyler Utt eliciting words from the SIL word list with Sumshot Khular.
Date: May 30, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Old Man and Woman Planting transcript

Retelling of Old Man and Woman Planting

Telling of traditional Meiteiron story Old Man and Woman Planting [Arum in Lamkang] as narrated by Beshot Khullar from Phaidaam (formerly known as P. Pantha).
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of words from SIL word list transcript

Elicitation of words from SIL word list

Jane Lorenzen eliciting words based on the SIL word list with Sumshot Khular.
Date: May 5, 2016
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion about nouns

A discussion with Beshot Khullar about singular and plural nouns. Shobhana Chelliah and Harimohon Thounaojam are discussants.
Date: May 12, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library