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Computational Resource on South Asian Languages
136
Mankiyali Language Resource
86
National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection
50
National Museum of the Pacific War Digital Archive
50
Boro Language Resource
47
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNT Collection
25
LGBT Collections
20
The Dallas Way Oral History Collection
11
Nino Testa Oral History Collection (The Dallas Way)
9
Denton Fracking Referendum Collection
7
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Oral History Interview with Dwayne Jose, February 19, 2019
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dwayne Kendall Jose. Jose joined the Army Air Forces in 1942. He received his wings in 1943, and served as a B-26 bomber pilot with the 17th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force. Beginning in mid-1944, he traveled to North Africa, and completed 50 missions over Italy and Germany. They participated in the Italian Campaign and the Battle of the Bulge, bombing air fields, refineries and bridges. He shares vivid details of combat. Jose returned to the U.S. and received his discharge in 1945.
Date:
February 19, 2019
Creator:
Jose, Dwayne
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Julius Spelce, January 15, 2019
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Julius Spelce. Spelce joined the Navy in May of 1944. On Manus Island, he was assigned to a floating dry dock, USS ABSD-2. Spelce served as Petty Officer Third Class with the deck force, conducting repair work and serving as a cook, where he remained through the end of the war. They provided service repairs to large and small ships. Spelce recalls their vessel being torpedoed in April of 1945. He received his discharge in July of 1946.
Date:
January 15, 2019
Creator:
Spelce, Julius
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Callanan, May 14, 2019
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Callanan. Callanan joined the Army in March of 1942. He trained in California, building airstrips, hangars, temporary bridges, Quonset huts and worked on other construction projects. Callanan served as a master sergeant with the 1876th Engineer Aviation Battalion in New Guinea and in the Philippines. He returned to the US in December of 1945.
Date:
May 14, 2019
Creator:
Callanan, Charles M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-25 – Haoyue Liang, piano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
April 25, 2019
Creator:
Liang, Haoyue
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-18 – Jingshu Zhao, piano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
April 18, 2019
Creator:
Zhao, Jingshu
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of nouns
This is an elicitation of Mankiyali nouns and pronouns based on English sentences used as prompts. The speakers are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male).
Date:
September 12, 2019
Creator:
Shah, Midhat
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of verb paradigms
This is an elicitation of Mankiyali verb paradigms based on English sentences used as prompts. The speakers are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male).
Date:
September 23, 2019
Creator:
Iqbal, Javid
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative of Sultan Khan
In this monologue Sultan Khan (a 54-year old male driver) recollects his childhood memories when he was studying in class 8th. He narrates how he once fled from home to Sargodha and then to Lahore with a friend, and about the subsequent events. The other speakers in this recording are Muhammad Rafiq (a 28-year old male) and Muhammad Mushtaq (a 25-year old male).
Date:
July 15, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about life in village Danna in the olden days
This is a conversation between Abdul Haq (a 29-year old male teacher) and Abdul Qayum (a 60-year old male) about life in village Danna in the olden days.
Date:
July 14, 2019
Creator:
Aurangzeb
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about high school memories, part 2
This is a conversation between Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male) and Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male). In this conversation, Gohar-ur Rehman talks about his memories in high school. He recalls an incident when a student was punished by a teacher on the road. The speakers also recall several other events in this session.
Date:
July 14, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of the story of a king and his two sons
This is a retelling of the story of a king and his two sons by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). Abdul Qayoum (a 60-year old male) is the listener. In this story, there was a king in Iran who had two sons. The sons get separated from each other. After a long time, there is a battle between the two sons, and one defeats the other. Eventually, they find out that they are brothers and regret that they were fighting.
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of a love story about Yusuf Khan and Sher Bano
This is a retelling of a love story of Yousaf Khan and Sher Bano by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). Abdul Qayoum (a 60-year old male) is the listener in this recording. Native speakers Naik Muhammad and Aurangzeb are also present.
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Traditional story about a princess
This is the retelling of a traditional story about a princess narrated by the native speaker Ghulam Sarvar, and the native speaker Abdul Qayum was the listener.
Date:
July 13, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative by Muhammad Suleman
In this conversation with Atta-Ur Rehman, Muhammad Suleman recounts the personal experiences of his first ever journey to the Chitral district of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province where he attended a workshop on orthography and conservation of regional languages of Pakistan organized by the Project Director, Dr. Sadaf Munshi, in collaboration with the Forum for Language Initiatives, Islamabad (Pakistan).
Date:
July 12, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative about travel to Chitral
This is a monologue about a visit to Chitral district by Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher). The speaker is telling that it was a surprise for him to travel by air for the first time and it was his first visit to Chitral. He was very excited about this trip.
Date:
July 6, 2019
Creator:
Munshi, Sadaf
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a prayer to god
This poem is a prayer to god by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male).
Date:
March 12, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem about a happy life
This is a poem by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male). In this poem he says that the whole world is like our home, we should live a happy life by co-operating with each other.
Date:
March 10, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem about reaping what you sow
This is a short poem by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male teacher).
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance of poems about FLI and an itinerant merchant
These are two small poems by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male). The first one is about FLI (Forum for Language Initiatives); the second one is about a traditional man who brings some stuff to sell.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about preparations for winter
This is a conversation between Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and fieldworker Uzma Anjum. The speaker tells how people prepare for the winter in Danna, his village.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Historical narrative about the tribe of Mankiyal
This is a historical narrative by Ghulam Sarvar (a 70-year old male). In this recording, the speaker talks about the journey of the forefathers of the Mankiyal tribe came from Kabul (Afghanistan) to Swat via Peshawar (present-day Pakistan), and then onwards from Swat to Shoshni, a village near their current location Danna. According to this account, the language that they speak today was adopted by their ancestors from the Trawara community. The authenticity of the account is to be investigated.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about an engagement ceremony
This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). In this conversation the speakers traditionally talk about an engagement ceremony which was held in Rawalpindi and one of the speakers traveled to Rawalpindi to attend the ceremony.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about a life incident of Abdul Malik
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This is a conversation between Abdul Malik (an 85-year old male) and Abdul Rehman (an 80-year old male). Abdul Malik talks about an incident of his father's life when he was young.
Date:
February 9, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative of Khurshaid Bibi
This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about her life, how she got married, subsequent problems and her final coping with them.
Date:
February 8, 2019
Creator:
Anjum, Uzma
System:
The UNT Digital Library