A conversation about directional words and various other constructions in Lamkang at IIIT-Hyderabad.

This is an elicitation and discussion of tone and assimilation with Steney Leivon Lamkang. The experimental lead is Melissa Robinson.

Recording of Angela Tholung singing Lam loon laa "alam moh k'hei txooi e" during the Lamkang folk song competition at Thamlapokpi village on 1st January 2017.The video is taken by Sumshot and Tony Khular as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research Project.

Angshel Khular of M.Seljol village singing the 'Khungpaar Laa.' Angshel is known for his expert trumpet plays amongst the Lamkangs. He is also a known laapuu and also a dancer. This recording was made in M.Seljol village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

This version of the Asangba Nongjabi (Crimson Rainclouds) is in Manipuri using the Roman script.

Belun Sankhil sharing his family origin and forefathers and their family lineage at Phaaidaam village. This recording was made in Phaaidam village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

A poem on Boro New year festival Bwisagu included in a mouthpiece of the All Odalguri Silver Jubilee year celebration, Odalguri College, Udalguri held on 15-22, April 2017.

This report discusses border disputes between China and India in the Himalayas and the recent dispute at Doka La over China extending a road into disputed territory between Bhutan and China.

This study incorporated a community based assessment with a focus on community based tourism in Kalache and Hulgol, India. Kalache and Hulgol are two agrarian based communities located in the environmentally significant region of the Western Ghats. Each of these communities has considered community based tourism as a means to reduce urban youth outmigration, to diversify economic resources, and to encourage the empowerment of women. The primary goals of this study were to understand the community issues and objectives, to determine the level of support for tourism development, to determine participant attitudes toward tourism, and to determine the obstacles to tourism development. The findings of this project address the complexity of operating in the tourism industry, the impacts of tourism, and the use of community based tourism models in support of sustainable tourism.

The purpose of this study was to better understand student learning in asynchronous computer-conference discourse (ASD) for non-native speakers of English in India through the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework. The study looked at ASD from an online course taught in the fall of 2015 to 25 students in a seminary in South India. All but one of the students were non-native speakers of English. The class consisted of 22 men and 3 women. Eight students spoke languages from the Dravidian family of languages (Malayalam, Tamil, Telegu and Kannada). Eight students were from the Northeastern states of Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, where most languages are from the Sino-Tibetan family. Three students were native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages (Odiya and Assamese). Five students were from Myanmar representing several Sino-Tibetan languages. The COI is a framework used to understand learning in ASD, often used in online learning. To study the ASD of this group, critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used with the COI to capture the unique socio-cultural and linguistic conditions of this group. The study revealed that non-native speakers of English often reach the Exploration phase of learning but rarely show evidence of reaching the Resolution phase. This phenomenon was also …

Conversation between Sumshot Khular and Tony Khular during a visit to a field after harvest in Wangjangloon village. This recording was taken as part of the Firebird Anthropological Research project collection by Sumshot Khular.

A discussion with Leivon Steney Lamkang, a young woman living in Hyderabad, about the Lamkang community and language in Diaspora.

Belun Sankhil showing his crafts work of the different Lamkang baskets that he makes. Explaining about the kinds of bamboo and the cane at Phaaidaam village at his house. Belun Sankhil is also a story teller and singer of Lamkang folktales and folksongs from Phaaidaam village. This recording was made in Phaaidam village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Shangjing Sankhil sharing about the crafts work and also the farming in the village and what vegetables are being planted in the field. This recording was made in Phaaidam village as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Shetphong Sankhil and Donnu Sankhil discusses telephone calls. This recording was made as part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research work collection by Sumshot Khular.

Recording of Reelruh kardaam by Angshel Khular of M.Seljol village. He discusses that it is only the Lamkangs that performed this reelruh dance and the musical instrument called Reelruh is used only by the Lamkang and it's unique to the Lamkangs. This recording is part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research project collection by Sumshot Khular.

Recording of discussion on Lamkang grammar and orthography between Daniel Tholung, Tholung Swamy Ksen, and Sumshot Khular at Thamlakhuren village.

Recording of Donnu Sankhil and Shetphong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi village discussing about the family genealogy. This recording is part of the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research project collection by Sumshot Khular.

Melissa Robinson eliciting compound words with William Shilshi. Recorded at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.

Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with gemination in a frame sentence with Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant uttered in the frame 'ava ___=a ktxhaa ktxhaa', meaning 'that ___ is nice/beautiful' to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word.

Melissa Robinson eliciting minimal pairs with William Shilshi at Hyderabad.

Melissa Robinson eliciting minimal pairs with Rengshing Dilbung, Koko at Hyderabad.

Melissa Robinson eliciting minimal pairs with Angnam Shankhil in Hyderabad.

Syllable Tapping Experiment with speaker Dina Sankhil Lamkang and Melissa Robinson as the experimental lead. The experiment was intended to determine speaker intuition about syllable structure in words with multiple prefixes.