Photograph of Shobhana Chelliah, Mary Burke, and Sumshot Khular visiting with the Lamkang Language Education Committee in Chandel, Manipur.

Photograph of a Lamkang Directionals discussions on white board at the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.

Photograph of Rengpu Rex Khullar and Prafulla Basumatry during the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco, Guwahati, Assam.

Photograph taken during break time at the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

Lamkang speakers along with a Meitei speaker posing for picture during the Lamkang Orthography workshop at Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Photograph of Rengpu Rex Khullar and Sumshot Khular Lamkang speaker consultants taken during the Lamkang Orthography workshop at Don Bosco Institute. Guwahati, Assam.

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

Photograph of Thounaojam Harimohon Singh taken during the Lamkang orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

Photograph of a yongchak-tree bean known as parkia in English and its scientific name Angiosperm (Dicotyledon) one of the delicacies of Lamkang diet.

A purple sweet potatoes from Tony Khular' s garden in Thamlakhuren village. Sweet potatoes are grown widely in the Lamkang community and is consumed in the homes and some families sell them for subsistence income too. This picture is taken during a visit to the Lamkangs in Chandel district, Manipur, India.

A raa aryung, a root of yam, ready to be planted. Taken during a visit to the Lamkangs in Chandel, Manipur, India.

A raa aryung, a root of yam, ready to be planted at Thamlakhuren village taken during a visit to the Lamkangs in Chandel, Manipur, India.

A pile of roots Raa, Baal and Korkaai yellow, purple ready for planting kept at Tony Khular' s house at Thamlakhuren village during a visit with the Lamkang in Chandel, Manipur, India.

A root of Raa ready for planting kept at Tony Khular' s house at Thamlakhuren village during a visit with the Lamkang in Chandel, Manipur, India.

Sumshot Khular reads from the book of Mark, Chapter 1.

Sumshot Khular reads a Benglam story transcribed during a writer's workshop conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Manipur.

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.

This is a reading of a minimal pair demonstrating contrastive tone in Manipuri.

This is a reading of a minimal pair demonstrating contrastive tone in Manipuri.

Recording of Daniel Tholung reading a list of verbs in English and Lamkang that he prepared.

Recording of inflected verbs in a frame: In the Lamkang language we say "__".

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.

Toni Khullar provides a reading of some insect names

Sumshot Khular reads a list of names along with the agentive marker -ngi.