Bodo Correspondences August 2000 (open access)

Bodo Correspondences August 2000

Typed table of sound correspondences from Proto-Bodo-Garo in 4 Bodo-Garo languages (Tiwa, Boro, Garo, Rabha) arranged by initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
Date: [2000..2002]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Garo and Tiwa grammar (open access)

Notes on Garo and Tiwa grammar

Handwritten notes on Tiwa and Garo grammar including case marking, adverbials, and nominalization.
Date: [2000..2010]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Rabha phonology and word lists (open access)

Notes on Rabha phonology and word lists

Handwritten notes on Rabha phonology focusing on tone, vowel quality, echo words, and syllable structure, with a phoneme inventory. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (natural world, body parts, animals, kinship terms).
Date: [2000..2010]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar (open access)

Notes on Tiwa phonology and grammar

Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology (tone, glottals, syllable structure) and grammar (case, adverbials, compounds, classifiers, negation) with sample sentences and phrases. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (animals, body parts, natural world, household, agriculture, verbs of motion/ break/ cut/ carry/ burn/ boil, time, and health).
Date: 2000-11-15/2000-12-18
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Tiwa tone (open access)

Notes on Tiwa tone

Handwritten notes on Tiwa phonology examining tone in monosyllabic and polysyllabic forms and the impact of case and TAM markers on tone.
Date: [2000..2010]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovering Tibeto-Burman Linguistic History Through Pre 20th Century Meithei Manuscripts (open access)

Discovering Tibeto-Burman Linguistic History Through Pre 20th Century Meithei Manuscripts

This is a conference handout titled 'Discovering Tibeto-Burman Linguistic History Through Pre 20th Century Meithei Manuscripts' containing a brief introduction, 4 tables, and references. The handout discusses 7 features of Manipuri manuscripts: number and genre, script, dating, authorship, housing and ownership, paper and condition, and status in the culture. This handout was used at the Ninth Seminar for the International Association for Tibetan Studies in a panel on Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages and Tibeto-Burman Reconstruction in Leiden, The Netherlands, on June 26th, 2000.
Date: June 23, 2000
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Ray, Sohini, 1966-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Sombeel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Sombeel

Transcript for The Story of Sombeel by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren Village Recorded by Daniel Tholung in 2000 as part of his collection on Lamkang culture and traditions.
Date: 2000
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Critique to the Mythology of Lamkang Tribe Manipur (open access)

A Critique to the Mythology of Lamkang Tribe Manipur

A published critique to the mythology of the Lamkang tribe.
Date: 2000
Creator: Dilbung, Avince Anthony
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lamkang Traditonal Knik known as Diphuun Ksen

Photograph of [diphuun ksen] a Lamkang traditional wrap around worn by women, 'knik'. Woven by Tony Khular, of Thamlakhuren village, this knik was designed by Sankhil Thampool Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village in the early 1970s. She designed this diphuun ksen with the Lamkang Tkar buw K'err, also called 'Angbrasu buw'. It was worn by the Lamkang choir in the competition with Tkar buw Kpool during the Manipur Baptist Convention in Mao Songsong.
Date: February 20, 2000
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Inside a traditional house in a Raji village

Photograph of a Raji family house. On the ground floor of this house, the family keeps their livestock at night to protect them from other animals and harsh weather. The gate of the ground floor is at the back of the house. The family lives on the top floor.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kavita Rastogi and Dan Singh in the Askote market

Photograph of Kavita Rastogi and Dan Singh in the middle of the Askote town market. Dan Singh was employed in a local grocery shop. He helped Rastogi a lot in data collection as well as in connecting her to other community members.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kavita Rastogi with a Raji family

Photograph of Kavita Rastogi sitting with a Raji couple; their children are sitting in the back.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kavita Rastogi with ARPAN members

Photograph taken on the way to Jamtari with local support. Both of them were working in an NGO called ARPAN.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Raji couple plowing their land

Photograph of a Raji couple plowing their land.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Raji family house in Jamtari Hamlet

Photograph of a Raji family sitting at the entrance gate of their /pəkkɑ/ house in Jamtari Hamlet. This is the top floor of the house. The stairs are made from keeping heavy stones one on top of another.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Raji men in the Askote market

Photograph of Raji men taking a rest in front of their favorite tea shop at Askote. Every day, they bring wood or grass collected from the jungles to sell. They get a very small amount of money in return.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ratan Singh and family in Kimkhola Hamlet

Photograph of Ratan Singh, his wife, and mother sitting in front of their newly constructed house in Kimkhola Hamlet.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional fish traps in a Raji village

Photograph of the traditional way of catching fish. Fishers put some pieces of wood to stop the flow of the river and try to make a tiny pond where fish get stuck.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional house in a Raji village

Photograph of a traditional house in a Raji village. On the left side of the picture, one can see a part of a hut called /mɑʊvɑs/ in Raji, which is made of wooden sticks collected from the jungle.
Date: 2000
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of Thamptlum

The Thamptlum paomin [the Story of Thamptlum] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of Thamlakhuren. The story tells of how a snake married a woman. Translated into English and input in SayMore by Sumshot Khular.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of The Story of the Lamkang Hunter

Lamkang Suk Paomin [The story of the Lamkang Hunter] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu. This is a story of how a Lamkang man who was a an expert hunter was captured and enslaved by the Kukis. When they planned to kill him, he was encouraged by his wife to escape. A tiger helped him cross the river and eventually return home to be united with his children.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of The Story of When There Is No Graveyard

Wangchen paomin [The Story of When there is No Graveyard] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of of Thamlakhuren. In this story, a woman marries and lives in a village that has no graveyard. She ends up marrying into this village and here they eat a person when they die.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative about The Bad Woman and Good Woman

Skinyernu and Penpenjur [The Bad Woman and Good Woman] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. In this story, a lady who was very good and industrious, Penpenjur, was killed by a bad woman, Skinyernu. Later Skinyernu played the role of the wife of Penpenjur, whom she had killed. However, the first wife, Penpenjur, was reborn to fight with the bad woman. The good woman won the fight, but the good woman killed again with the poison from the banana leaf that was used to wrap a food pack, a banana that grew out of the bad woman. In the end of the story, the husband and wife met in the land of the death, but as they were to go to their final destiny, the man laughed and this caused them to be separated. In order to get around being separated, they grew as two separate but joined at the upper branches, like a tree and climber.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional narrative about the slave girl, part 1 transcript

Traditional narrative about the slave girl, part 1

Retelling of Manhen Paomin [the story of the Slave Girl] as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu.
Date: 2000
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library