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Retelling of Tǝpta

This is a retelling of the traditional narrative about Tǝpta, the boogeyman.
Date: 1986
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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.
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.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of minimal pairs contrasting [tl] and [thl] from Daniel Tholung at Thamlakhuren Village transcript

Elicitation of minimal pairs contrasting [tl] and [thl] from Daniel Tholung at Thamlakhuren Village

Daniel Tholung shares a list of minimal pairs contrasting the sounds [tl] and [thl] at Sumshot Khular' s house in Thamlakhuren village 2018.
Date: January 11, 2018
Creator: Burke, Mary
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of words with consonant clusters transcript

Analytical discussion of words with consonant clusters

Swamy Ksen describes words with two consonant (CC) sequences based on a list he curated. This is a discussion of that list.
Date: August 9, 2018
Creator: unknown
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of the story "Origin of the Lamkang" with Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil transcript

Analytical discussion of the story "Origin of the Lamkang" with Daniel Tholung and Shekarnong Sankhil

A discussion of a recording we have named "The Origin of the Lamkang". Present at the dicussion are David Peterson, Shobhana Chelliah, Sumshot Khular, Daniel Tholung, and Shekarnong Sankhil. The recording illustrates how grammatical information can be gleaned in the process of translating connected text.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the Pear Story: Daniel transcript

Retelling of the Pear Story: Daniel

This is a trimmed version of longer recording by Daniel Tholung retelling the Pear Story to Shekarnong Sankhil. The recording includes questions by Shekarnong to Daniel about details of the story. Recorded as part of a Linguistics Field Methods class at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel transcript

Retelling of a traditional narrative about the squirrel

A narration of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel story] as told by Shekarnong Sankhil
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional story about Benglam transcript

Traditional story about Benglam

A Benglam story as told by Beshot Khullar. In this story, Benglam outwits his would-be captors: Caught by the Kuki, Benglam insists he be tied up, but the rope is to be at his elbow and his captors must pull by the rope at a distance. Far from his captors, he slips out of the restraint, ties the rope to a tree, and escapes.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of tone in compound words transcript

Elicitation of tone in compound words

Sumshot Khular works with Berwyn Chong to collect compounds to study tone sandhi in these forms. The elicitation was done as part of a class project for Phonology at UNT in Fall 2017.
Date: October 27, 2017
Creator: Chong, Berwyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional story about Benglam transcript

Traditional story about Benglam

Beshot Khullar tells a traditional Benglam story.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the story "The Stepmother," Part I transcript

Conversation about the story "The Stepmother," Part I

Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt discuss the story "The Stepmother."
Date: April 19, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of tone, part 1 transcript

Analytical discussion of tone, part 1

Sumshot Khular discusses the tone of Lamkang words
Date: June 6, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of the causative paradigm of 'give' transcript

Analytical discussion of the causative paradigm of 'give'

A discussion between Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt of the causative construction and the verb 'give'. This elicitation was recorded in the Linguistic conference room at Discovery Park, UNT.
Date: April 21, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about language preservation and documentation

Sumshot Khular interviews Beshot Khullar at her home in Thamlapokpi, Chandel, Manipur. Beshot tells of his interests and activities in preserving traditional knowledge, stories, proverbs and the like.
Date: January 31, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library