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Traditional story about Uitokpaa and Useen

Recording of Donnu Sankhil telling the story of Uitokpaa and Useen. How the days were being formed. The song of a widow whose house stood alone after all the houses of the villagers sank underground.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa paomin (the Squirrel Story), as told by Bunghon Sankhil of Keithelmanbi Lamkang village in Chandel District Manipur.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Working on Boro and Dimasa Interlinear Glossing

Photograph of Prafulla Basumatary discussing interlinear glossing with Dhruv Langthasa.
Date: June 7, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

A young Lamkang woman weaving a Tkar Myaar Ksen Knik

Photograph of a young Lamkang woman demonstrating how she weaves a traditional shawl on her family loom located outside the house in the courtyard, at Ringkhuu in Chandel, Manipur.
Date: January 12, 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone words

Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (N-P) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone words

Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (H-K) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone words

Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (L-M) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of The Story of Khukhuu transcript

Analytical discussion of The Story of Khukhuu

Sumshot Khular provides a word-for-word translation and morpheme analysis of the traditional story Khukhuu Paomin [The Story of Khukhuu], followed by discussion and elicitation.
Date: February 22, 2017
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of the Story of Rununuu transcript

Analytical discussion of the Story of Rununuu

Sumshot Khular reads a written version of the Ruunuu story and provides an English summary, followed by discussion and elicitation.
Date: February 22, 2017
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shekarnong Sankhil narrating the Lamkang traditional jhum cultivation process in Lamkang culture

Recording of the Lamkang Traditional jhum agricultural practices in Lamkang and the varieties of crops and grains that are grown in the Lamkang land.
Date: October 20, 2009
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel captions transcript

Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel

Story of Arthluuk & Raangchel as told by Shangchrek Tholung
Date: February 2, 2016
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reduplication in Lamkang

Photograph of a poster presentation about reduplication in Lamkang at the ICOLSI-38 conference at IIT Guwahati, Assam, India
Date: November 12, 2016
Creator: Khular, Sumshot & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Poster
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

Interview about home life and family

Beshot interviews an unidentified young woman (Lamkang Student) about her home life and family.
Date: 2008
Creator: Khullar, Beshot
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of The Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen

Beshot Khullar of Phaaidam village, Chandel, tells the story of Sumphaai leh Raangleen [Sumphaai and Raangleen]. The story was collected by Rengpu Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam at the NSF-funded storytelling festival in 2009. The narration was transcribed by Reverend Daniel Tholung. This recording is of the translation discussion between Shobhana Chelliah and Daniel Tholung at the UNT in 2010.
Date: August 26, 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Pear Story: Robert

Retelling of Pear Story in Lamkang by Robert Leivon in New Delhi 2009
Date: 2009
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about traditional and modern health practices transcript

Conversation about traditional and modern health practices

Recording of Ringdam, a young Lamkang speaker living in Hyderabad, talking with Jane Lorenzen about health and wellness practices that she has observed over time.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the Pear Story: Kennedy

A retelling of the Pear Story as recorded in Hyderabad with young speakers in the diaspora.
Date: June 9, 2017
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Student Poster Conference Presentation

Photograph of poster on humor in Lamkang with a focus on Benglam story genre.
Date: unknown
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript, viewed through a plastic barrier. It is written in the Meithei Mayek script, a Brahmic abugida which has been in use since the 11th century. This specific manuscript discusses the art of the architecture and science of construction of houses, buildings, bridges, and walls.
Date: 2004
Creator: Molinaro, Mary
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript

This is a photograph of a Manipuri manuscript in the Meithei Mayek script. The Meithei Mayek script is a Brahmic abugida which has been in use since the 11th century. This specific manuscript discusses the art of the architecture and science of construction of houses, buildings, bridges, and walls. It was photographed through a plastic barrier.
Date: 2004
Creator: Molinaro, Mary
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript: Chada Lahui

This is a photograph of a Meitei Mayek manuscript. The Meithei Mayek script is a Brahmic abugida which has been in use since the 11th century. It was photographed through a plastic barrier, with the label 'CHADA LAHUI'.
Date: unknown
Creator: Molinaro, Mary
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript collection

This is a photograph of a woman with a private collection of ancient Manipuri manuscripts stored in a cabinet.
Date: January 1, 2008
Creator: Molinaro, Mary
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library