Photograph of Lamkang speakers with team of linguist at the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.

A group photograph taken with the Lamkang speakers and linguists during the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

A group photograph taken with the Lamkang speakers and linguists during the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation where speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe it. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a recording of Dr. H. Brojen’s retelling of the Pear Story.

This is a photograph of Manipuri linguists including Saratchandra Singh, one of the Manipuri language consultants who worked on translating Manipuri stories. Saratchandra Singh is standing with two women outside the Manipur University's Humanities Block in 1985.

The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation where speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe it. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a recording of Harimohon Thounaojam’s retelling of the Pear Story.

Recording of the lullaby 'Kano voh,' followed by discussion of the lyrics and other stories, during the Lamkang Orthography Workshop at Don Bosco Institute.

This is a photograph of a rice paddy taken on a cloudy day in Manipur, India.

Photograph of discussion and elicitation of Lamkang sentences and words with Lamkang speakers Sankhil, Donnu, Rengpu Rex Khullar, and Harimohon Meitei along with Shobhana Chelliah at the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.

Rengpu Rex Khullar provides discussion and examples of speech acts: complimenting, apologizing, commanding and a traditional trickster story. These are compared to Manipuri (Meiteiron) speech acts with discussion from Harimohon Thounaojam.

Recording of Speech Acts between Rengpu Rex Khullar and Beshot Khullar with Shobhana Chelliah and Harimohon Singh in Chennai.

Recording of proverbs in Lamkang. Beshot Khullar, Rengpu Rex Khullar, Shobhana Chelliah and Harimohon discussing the Lamkang proverbs.