Traditional narrative about an ungrateful son

This is a story of an ungrateful boy who leaves his parents in search of a job. He returns home with his friend one day and introduces his mother as a working woman; the mother cries a lot, the boy gets back to job and dies. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative about the daughter and the sparrow

This is a traditional story of a daughter and sparrow birds. The daughter tries to send away the birds from the rice field by singing a song, but hears an absurd voice. She fell in love with a boy disguised as a snake, got married, and became rich. Seeing this, a neighbor followed the same, got her daughter married to a real snake, but was eaten up. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional narrative about the old man and the sesame

This is a traditional story of an old man who went to get some sesame from a nearby market but forgot the Assamese word of it on the way. In the market, his friend helped him to get sesame. He also picked up a mirror but left it on the way while resting. A boy got it and used for the first time, took his own face to be his deceased father's. Always looked in the mirror, remembered his father more and more, became indifferent to his wife. The wife suspected that he always looked another woman in the mirror, quarrel begins. An old woman showed her that what they saw in the mirror were not other man or woman, but their own images. Dialect: Sanzari
Date: February 3, 2009
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boro Tones handout (open access)

Boro Tones handout

A handout summarizing of Burling's discussion of the Boro tone system at the Northeast Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) II conference in Gauhati, Assam. Includes handwritten annotations of tones in words ranging from 1-3+ syllables.
Date: 2007
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gothophwrni iun jiu danaini maonangou biban (open access)

Gothophwrni iun jiu danaini maonangou biban

An article about the role of society on child education
Date: December 31, 2006
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boro Tones (open access)

Boro Tones

A linguistic description of Boro tones, specifically in polysyllabic words, including an overview of Boro's phonemic inventory and syllable structure. The authors identify three tones (high, low, and falling), present examples, and discuss the effects of morphology and final consonants on tone. They conclude by comparing the Boro tone system to those of Tiwa and Rabha, and positing directions for further investigation.
Date: April 2006
Creator: Burling, Robbins & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Boro tones and syllable structure (open access)

Notes on Boro tones and syllable structure

Handwritten notes on Boro, focusing on tone, pitch, and lexical stress in polysyllabic words. Includes examples of three tones (high, low, and falling), discussion of how these tones are differentiated, and diagrams of potential tone combinations.
Date: 2006
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mwkhthang jiuni saogari bwgra Gustave Courbet (open access)

Mwkhthang jiuni saogari bwgra Gustave Courbet

A translation of an article on Gustave Courbet in Assamese by Bikash Parasar
Date: December 31, 2005
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aijw swlwngthaini gwnangthi (open access)

Aijw swlwngthaini gwnangthi

A souvenir of the reception committee of the 36th Annual conference of Bodo Sahitya Sabha/DDC, held at Barnagaon High school, Odalguri on 06-08 Jan. 2005, and an article on the important of women's education.
Date: August 1, 2005
Creator: Boro, Kiran
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proto-Bodo-Garo correspondences word list (open access)

Proto-Bodo-Garo correspondences word list

Typed table comparing multiple Boro-Garo languages to Proto-Bodo-Garo reconstructed forms, arranged alphabetically by English gloss. Includes handwritten notes clarifying glosses, tones, and sources of information.
Date: [2005..2015]
Creator: Burling, Robbins & Jacquesson, Francois
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bodo Correspondences August 2000 (open access)

Bodo Correspondences August 2000

Typed table of sound correspondences from Proto-Bodo-Garo in 4 Bodo-Garo languages (Tiwa, Boro, Garo, Rabha) arranged by initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
Date: [2000..2002]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library