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Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Grace Sankhil (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Grace Sankhil

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Grace Sankhil.
Date: September 26, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Khular, Sumshot; Tholung, Daniel; Utt, Tyler P.; Khullar, Rengpu Rex & Thounaojam, Harimohon
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Lamkang (open access)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Lamkang

Dultipaam Mkheng Thuh Mdopandan Dok Dultimii Ruhtanna', the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in Lamkang. Translated by Sumshot Khular and assisted by Tholung Swamy Ksen and published by Community Action for Research for Development.
Date: 2007
Creator: Khular, Sumshot & Tholung, Swamy Ksen
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for the Book of Matthew (open access)

Transcript for the Book of Matthew

Transcription of the Book of Matthew from the New Testament in Lamkang.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa paomin (Squirrel story) by William Lamkang.
Date: 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Shekarnong Sankhil (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Shekarnong Sankhil

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), narrated by Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi village during his visit to UNT in 2009.
Date: August 23, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of the Creation of Villages (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Creation of Villages

Transcription of Khuu kseem paomin (the story of the Creation of Villages) as told by Suungnem Bunghon and recorded by Rex Khullar.
Date: 2009
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Suumphaai and Raangleen by Shangchrek Tholung at Thamlapokpi (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Suumphaai and Raangleen by Shangchrek Tholung at Thamlapokpi

Transcription of a retelling of Suumphaai le Raangleen paomin (the Story of Suumphaai and Raangleen), as narrated by Shangchrek Tholung. Ranglen's wife hates his sister Sumphai, and orders him to sell her. Sumphai asks that she sell him to be a slave in a rich village. Ranglen ends up selling her in exchange for a single shaft of a rice plant. Later, Ranglen invites his sister to a feast, and she invites him to eat from what she has grown. Anticipating that his sister will not come, he instructs messengers to tell her he has died. On her way to the anticipated funeral, she is surprised to hear the sound of the Living Drum being played (rather than the Death Drum). She surmises that Ranglen has deceived her, and leaves in a huff. The origins of "Sumphai's goat" (a kind of goat) and "Sumphai's wine" (water that has accumulated in the cleft of a tree) are connected to the final episode of this tale.
Date: July 10, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
Transcription: Traditional story about Sumphaai and Raangleen (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Sumphaai and Raangleen

Transcription of a retelling of Sumphaai le Raangleen paomin (the Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen), as narrated by Beshot Khullar. The orphan Ranglen's wife Sangkakuk hates his sister Sumphai. She falsely claims Sumphai is lazy while she herself is hardworking, and demands that Ranglen choose between them. One day he takes his sister to Shonrang to sell her to a rich man, who tests her to see how honest she is. When she passes his test, he decides she must have been sold due to someone hating her (rather than to her being careless), and marries her. One day Ranglen visits her. Then he invites her to visit him, but on the pretense that he has died. As she approaches his village, the type of drumming she hears tells her that Ranglen is alive.
Date: 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part I  Bunghon Suungnem (open access)

Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part I Bunghon Suungnem

Transcription of a retelling of the Origin of the Lamkang: Naming Things, as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-UNDRIP (open access)

United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-UNDRIP

Chaatti Kunpun ni Mdopandandok Indigenous Mii Rek Kih Ruhtana, the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Lamkang. Translated by Sumshot Khular, the indigenous peoples rights provision under UNDRIP.
Date: 2008
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Ruunu and the Squirrel by Farngam Shilshi (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Ruunu and the Squirrel by Farngam Shilshi

Transcription of a retelling of Ruunu leh theipaa paomin (The Story of Ruunuu and the Squirrel), as narrated by Farngam Shilshi. Ruunu collects figs in the forest and meets a squirrel, who asks for a ride in the fig basket. The squirrel eats all the figs, leaving only the skins, and Ruunu curses
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Lamkang Literature and Education Committee
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Sumphaai and Raangleen (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Sumphaai and Raangleen

Transcription of a retelling of Sumphaai le Raangleen paomin (the Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen), as narrated by Swamy Tholung Ksen. To please his wife, Ranglen sells his sister Sumphaai to a rich man. The rich man's wife tests her to see whether she is a careful or careless person. The rich woman's son marries Sumphaai. Many years later Rangleen hosts the Merit Feast and wants to invite his sister, but expecting that she will refuse, he sends word to her that he has died in order to lure her.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part III (open access)

Transcript for a traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part III

Transcription of a retelling of the Origin of the Lamkang: part III, as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue on the need to document Lamkang (open access)

Transcription: Monologue on the need to document Lamkang

Transcription of a monologue by Daniel Tholung on the Lamkang people and language. He discusses the need to work toward promoting and preserving the language and how he and Shekarnong Sankhil of Thamlapokpi came to the UNT on Chelliah's invitation to interact with students and teach them about Lamkang. This is one of a series of recordings of Lamkang language revitalization experts on the importance of documenting the Lamkang language.
Date: August 22, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicited control sentences (open access)

Transcription: Elicited control sentences

Transcription of an elicitation of sentences to show how syntactic control works in Lamkang.
Date: March 3, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel

Transcription of a retelling of Arthluuk le Raangchel paomin (the Story of Arthluuk and Raangchel), as narrated by Swamy Tholung Ksen at Thamlapokpi village in Chandel district Manipur, India.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: The Prodigal Son (open access)

Transcription: The Prodigal Son

Transcription of a reading of the Story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-24) from the New Testament by Beshot Khullar. A landowner's second son demands his share of the inheritance before the father's death, goes off and squanders it, and returns to his father, who accepts his penitent son. The older brother, however, is upset at his father's acceptance of his returning brother.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
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: Traditional story about the Tiger and the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Tiger and the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Humpii paa leh theipaa paomin (Story of Tiger and Squirrel), as narrated by Shetwor Dilbung of Keithelmanbi Village Chandel District Manipur, India.
Date: unknown
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Reading of a blessing ritual called Smul Kpnaak (open access)

Transcription: Reading of a blessing ritual called Smul Kpnaak

Transcription of a blessing ritual called "Smul kpnaak" as performed by Sumshot Khular. This blessing is used by Lamkang elders to mark significant life events for younger couples. It can be performed for getting a blessing for good health, wealth, children, long life and any other blessings.
Date: August 19, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Boy and the Tiger (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Boy and the Tiger

Transcription of a retelling of Buurling le humpii paa paomin (the Story of the Boy and the Tiger), as narrated by Kangten Shakhila. The elder brother's wife tells her husband to kill his younger brother. At first he just pretends to do so, and then he abandons his younger brother in a tree. There the younger brother meets a tiger who wants to eat fruit from the tree. The boy offers to feed the tiger but stabs him instead. [INCOMPLETE.]
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam

Transcription of a Benglam Story, as told by Grace Sankhil. This Benglam story is about what happens when Beglam is on his way to bury a child.
Date: 2009
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa by Suungnem Bunghon (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Raapa by Suungnem Bunghon

Transcription of a retelling of Raapa paomin (the Story of Raapa), as narrated by Bunghon Suungnem. A tiger, angry at being duped by Koreng, eats him. Koreng's sisters vow to marry whoever kills the tiger, and the only one able to do it is Raapa. Jealous, the other men conspire to kill Raapa, but he survives two attempts and tricks them so that they drown. In the end Koreng's sisters kill Raapa.
Date: August 31, 2017
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex & Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library