Lectures in Imphal on Lamkang Verb Conjugation transcript

Lectures in Imphal on Lamkang Verb Conjugation

Shobhana Chelliah reviews two Lamkang paradigms with Lamkang language collectors and with the Manipuri language cell. The event was organized by Dr. Harimohon Thounaojam. Sumshot Khular assisted with translation as needed. There is an accompanying video and handout. Contributions recorded from Dr. Yashawanta Singh, Mr. Daniel Tholung, Mr, Swamy Tholung, and Mr. Beshot Khullar.
Date: August 8, 2018
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about cane baskets made by Thamshi Khular Thamlakhuren Chandel district Manipur.

Recording of Sumshot Khular describing traditional cane baskets and how it was made by their father Thamshi Khular. Made from cane and some bamboo lining underneath to make the circle.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about Lamkang heroes

Shekarnong Sankhil discusses a piece in the Souvenir magazine about the heroes of the Lamkang.
Date: December 2, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about the need to document Lamkang language and culture transcript

Monologue about the need to document Lamkang language and culture

One of several recordings of Shekarnong Sankhil on the importance of documenting Lamkang language and culture. The recordings were made when Mr. Sankhil and Reverend Daniel Tholung were visiting scholars at UNT.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups transcript

Monologue about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups

Shekarnong Sankhil talks about the relationship of the Lamkang to the Naga groups.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about the Totlang festival and landholding

Recording of a description of the Totlang festival and landholding.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about Totlang Festival transcript

Monologue about Totlang Festival

Shekarnong Sankhil explains different aspects of the Totlang Festival, a central celebration in the Lamkang world. He is speaking in English and talking to Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue on the state of language revitalization in Lamkang by Sumshot Khular.

Sumshot Khular at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Orthography Workshop speaks in Lamkang and English to thank the organizers, and the Lamkang speakers. Then shared about what is needed for language revitalization.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance and analytical discussion of the lullaby 'Knao vo' transcript

Performance and analytical discussion of the lullaby 'Knao vo'

Recording of the lullaby 'Kano voh,' followed by discussion of the lyrics and other stories, during the Lamkang Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco Institute.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a harvest song transcript

Performance of a harvest song

At the University of North Texas, Shekarnong Sankhil sings a harvest song.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of Ong Mang ngo-Lamloon Laa and retelling of Arthluuk Leh Raangchel

Recording of Sankhil Khungwar Rengtingnu singing lamloon laa ong mang ngo at Thamlapokpi village. In the second part Swamy Tholung Ksen tells the story of Arthluuk leh Raangchel. This story has some significance on the relationship between the Lamkangs and the English.
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about Sheltoi Sankhil's grandmother transcript

Personal narrative about Sheltoi Sankhil's grandmother

Sumshot explains the IRB release form to Sheltoi (Adam) Sankhil. Sheltoi then tells a story about his grandma.
Date: January 13, 2018
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative on Donnu Sankhil's two aunts from Challong

Recording of a story by Donnu Sankhil about her two aunts from Challong during the Lamkang Orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of terms of reference in Lamkang

Photograph of terms of reference in Lamkang during the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading from the New Testament, Book of Mark, Chapter 1 transcript

Reading from the New Testament, Book of Mark, Chapter 1

Sumshot Khular reads from the book of Mark, Chapter 1.
Date: June 3, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of a Benglam Story transcript

Reading of a Benglam Story

Sumshot Khular reads a Benglam story transcribed during a writer's workshop conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Manipur.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of a blessing ritual Smul Kpnaak captions transcript

Reading of a blessing ritual Smul Kpnaak

This blessing, called Smul Kpnaak, is used by elders to mark significant life events for younger couples. This ritual blessing is to be used by an older person addressing younger people- Sumshot Khular shares the beautiful words here which translated mean: This is the feather for your good health, your long life, your well-being. May you be blessed with many daughters, with many sons, with many crops, with livestock, with wealth and riches. ‎‎May you be blessed with knowledge and understanding without end, and with overflowing riches. May you be blessed with abundant livestock. May your children be as numerous as the stars. May they be as numerous as the sands of the sea. ‎‎Even if misfortune, bad storms (of life), disease and hunger come (to you). With your left hand push them away, and with your right hand bring the blessings closer to you. ‎‎May it be so for your life, may it be so for your good health. ‎‎May your life be as long as the banyan tree. May Heaven grant you strength and happiness.
Date: 2015
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of a verb list

Recording of Daniel Tholung reading a list of verbs in English and Lamkang that he prepared.
Date: ~2010
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of inflected verbs in a frame sentence

Recording of inflected verbs in a frame: In the Lamkang language we say "__".
Date: July 21, 2016
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reading of inflected verbs with prefixal consonant clusters

Recording of an elicitation script of inflected verbs with three or more agreement prefixes. The speaker is Sumshot Khular, who worked on this recording as a visiting scholar at the University of North Texas.
Date: August 4, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of list of insects and other nouns with modifier transcript

Reading of list of insects and other nouns with modifier

Toni Khullar provides a reading of some insect names
Date: January 12, 2018
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library