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Discussion on Lamkang Orthography and grammar issues at Thamlakhuren village

Recording of discussion on Lamkang grammar and orthography between Daniel Tholung, Tholung Swamy Ksen, and Sumshot Khular at Thamlakhuren village.
Date: July 2, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Elicitation of tone minimal pairs with frame

Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs in a frame with Sumshot Khular.
Date: July 21, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speech about workshop goals

This is a talk on the purpose of a formal meeting and contains a background of teachers' training workshop by Bathou Educational Foundation.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Announcement of workshop schedule

Formal announcement of schedule and logistical information about a teachers' workshop.
Date: July 27, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Formal introduction of a guest

This is a formal introduction of an invited guest.
Date: July 28, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Formal introduction of a meeting

This is an address by the chairperson in the beginning of a formal meeting. It gives participants an idea what the meeting is about.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about Boro educational material

This is a conversation about newly published Boro primers. The teachers are sharing their feedback on the primers published by the Bathou Educational Foundation.
Date: July 28, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speech concluding a workshop

Formal speech concluding a teachers' workshop expressing gratitude to the participants and organizers.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation with farmworkers at the paddy field

This is a short video recording of a conversation at Aquil Ahmad's paddy field back in 2016, where the researcher, along with the farm laborers, is transplanting rice saplings. Aquil Ahmad records the activity, and in the meanwhile, one of the workers notices him and tells him to look at what his grandson is doing. Aquil replied to let him do and learn! Then he asks her whether those yellow turned saplings would also take roots.
Date: July 16, 2016
Creator: Ahmad, Aquil
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Story about a king and a cat

This is a very short bedtime story of a king and a cat narrated in a rhyming pattern. These type of stories are told to lull and amuse small children.
Date: July 20, 2020
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kom-Rhem Chonden Daan (open access)

Kom-Rhem Chonden Daan

Customary law of Komrem tribe relating to the social practices from birth to death.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Serto, Thangneireng
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speech about workshop goals

This is a brief talk about the goals of the workshop.
Date: July 27, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speech about the activities of Bathou Educational Foundation

This is a talk on the various activities of Bathou Educational Foundation. He discusses textbooks, cultural calendar and value education for Bathou Ashram schools.
Date: July 29, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan reciting the popular poem "um ba Khudaye" in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Dast-e-Khuda" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Dast-e-Khuda"

Recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan, a retired school teacher, reciting the poem "Dast-e-Khuda," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personal narrative on family history by Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan transcript

Personal narrative on family history by Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan

Recording of Raja Sakhawat Ali Khan reciting a personal narrative of his family history in the Srinagar dialect. He recalls how his ancestry came to Srinagar. He tells of his fathers, and his brothers and their children, and his own children, and what they work as.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "Um Ba Khudaye"

Recording of Raja Tasleem Khan, a magistrate, reciting the poem "um ba khudaye," in the Srinagar dialect.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs, Number 37, Assam (open access)

Oxford Pamphlets on Indian Affairs, Number 37, Assam

Book describing Assam's history, demographics, politics, and ethnic groups.
Date: July 1946
Creator: Ali, Alban & Lambert, Eric
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'I lo kani liu to'

This is a song of expressing love between a man and woman. The man says, 'For the one I love I could bring the biggest bull. I can work the whole mountain. What do you say? My fair lady'. The woman responds, 'Oh bachelor! Stop teasing. Do not do as you wish. Do not mention about a bull You don’t have to pay anything. I will come for free'.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Nang liu nadao suang'

This song talks about the beauty of a woman as she matures. It says, everything looks better when a girl becomes a woman.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Hey kenglam lung'

This song is about the beauty of the village. It says that the village is better than any foreign land. The singer appeals to the villagers who have gone out of the village to return to the village.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Dailiam, Binthu
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Akiluang tingnai phian kali'

This song laments that things have changed in the village after the singer's beloved (Mungimai) is married off to a foreign man. He sings, 'The sun ray has changed in my village. My land is no longer like the old days. The sound of pigeon has changed. My heartfelt regret is that I could not protect Mungimai.'
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Pui ram duang katen mai'

The singer asks the people who made the road, "have you seen my love come home yet? If you see her tell her to mark the way. Tell her to show me the way. I will come like a cattle that cannot be pulled."
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Khamping lui'

This is a song of Khamping, a legendary composer. This song talks about his failed relationship with a village damsel. His lover was given in marriage to a rich man of neighboring village by her parents.
Date: July 7, 2019
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library