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
Analytical discussion of The Story of Two Brothers transcript

Analytical discussion of The Story of Two Brothers

Tyler Utt and Sumshot Khular discuss the story of the Two Brothers.
Date: March 14, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
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

Lamkaang-English Dictionary with pictures: Part - 1

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Illustrated Lamkang-English dictionary for children with five sections: the natural world, water, animals, animal life cycles, and animal anatomy (external and internal).
Date: 2017
Creator: Lamkaang Language Education Committee
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lamkaang Paumin: Laika 1

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Lamkang-language primer containing illustrated stories for young readers.
Date: 2017
Creator: Lamkaang Language Education Committee
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lamkaang Phung Rek: Lamkaang Melá¹­ha Jor, Lamkaan Pauá¹­ha

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Booklet of compiled information about the clans of the Lamkang people, with tables of family trees for each clan, and naming conventions to represent information such as birth order and familial relationships, a list of "extraordinary persons," and other relevant information.
Date: 2017
Creator: Lamkaang Pau Tkurchuna Lop
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of a Benglam Story transcript

Reading of a Benglam Story

Sumshot Khular reads a Benglam story transcribed during a writer's workshop conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Manipur.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy transcript

Traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy

Sumshot Khular tells the story of The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy, followed by elicitation and discussion. She is referencing a transcript of the story. The story is about a poor boy and a rich boy who went to set a trap. The poor boy's trap caught a deer and the rich boy got nothing, but he put the deer in his trap and tried to cheat the poor boy.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional narrative about why monkeys' bottoms are flat transcript

Traditional narrative about why monkeys' bottoms are flat

Sumshot Khular tells the traditional narrative about why monkeys' bottoms are flat, followed by elicitation and discussion. This retelling was stimulated by a written version created by Khumwar Suungmen of Charangching Khullen-Haikaa during a Lamkang Language Education Committee workshop in Mantri Pantha village in Manipur.
Date: 2017
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy (open access)

Transcript for a traditional narrative about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy

Transcription of a retelling of Sraa nao le svang nao ki paomin (the Story of the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy), as narrated by Rocky Suungnem. The poor boy sets his trap on the ground, and the rich boy sets his up in a tree. When the rich boy goes by himself to check on the traps, he switches the bird caught in his trap for the deer in the poor boy's trap. The tiger offers to speak to the king on behalf of the poor boy, telling him that he had seen some fish eating figs up in a tree. The king finds it absurd, and the tiger says that catching a deer up in a tree is also absurd.
Date: 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of Clans by Angtoi Sankhil (open access)

Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of Clans by Angtoi Sankhil

Transcription of conversation on the origin of clans including the name of clans by Sankhil Angtoi.
Date: June 6, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for an interview about biographical information from Chonmila Sankhil (open access)

Transcript for an interview about biographical information from Chonmila Sankhil

Transcription of an interview in which Beshot Khullar asks Chonmila Sankhil about their life in Phaaidaam village Chandel District Manipur, India.
Date: August 8, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for Blessings from the Thei-chik-tboor tree by Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi (open access)

Transcript for Blessings from the Thei-chik-tboor tree by Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi

Transcription of Thei chik tboor tun ki suu txhat nah (Blessings from the Thei-chik-tboor tree) as told by Shekarnong Sankhil. A young man, abandoned by his elder brother at the behest of his wife, befriends a young woman. He gifts his prospective parents-in-law with precious items he took from the tiger he killed. The young woman proves herself fit to be his wife by being the only person not to slip on a mat spread out at harvest time.
Date: September 2, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Conversation with a Lamkang student at Phaaidaam village (open access)

Transcription: Conversation with a Lamkang student at Phaaidaam village

Transcription of a conversation between Beshot Khullar and a Lamkang student. Beshot interviews the student about her home life and family.
Date: September 26, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee (open access)

Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee

Transcription of a discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlaang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of directional nouns (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of directional nouns

Transcription of an elicitation session of how space is encoded in Lamkang. The sentences were based on those in an LTBA (Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area) article on Qiang languages that was under review at the time of elicitation.
Date: November 16, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of optatives (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of optatives

Transcription of an elicitation of optatives in Lamkang. The purpose of the elicitation was to investigate optative verb forms. All sentences are of the type "[X] should give a book to [Y]". Recorded from Lamkang speaker Sumshot Khular at UNT.
Date: August 10, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give' (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give'

Transcription of an elicitation session of the paradigm for the verb 'give'.
Date: August 25, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of postpositions (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of postpositions

Transcription of an elicitation session of spatial reference in Lamkang. Shobhana Chelliah created the elicitation and recorded from Sumshot Khular the Lamkang words which was translated from Lamkang to English by her at UNT.
Date: July 5, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicited causative constructions (open access)

Transcription: Elicited causative constructions

Transcription of an elicitation of causative constructions in Lamkang. Recorded from Sumshot Khular as part of a 2017 field methods course at UNT.
Date: 2017
Creator: Good, Wally
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue about home life (open access)

Transcription: Monologue about home life

Transcription of Kennedy Dilbung, studying and living in Delhi, talking about his family in Khorpii village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: 2017~
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers (open access)

Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers

Transcription of Sumshot Khular recounting her mother Sankhil Thampol Khularnu 's story of giving eggs to some Japanese soldiers who showed up in her village of Charlong during World War II.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Psalm 23 in Lamkang (open access)

Transcription: Psalm 23 in Lamkang

Transcription of Psalm 23 from the Book of Psalms from the Old Testament in Lamkang.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library