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Personal narrative about college life

Personal narrative about about a college student's hometown, family and friends, and educational institutions.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about hobbies

This is a personal narrative about hobbies.
Date: May 24, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation introductions

Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about home life and school

This is a narrative about the speaker's hometown, friends and family, and educational institutions.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Baadsha Zulqarneen transcript

Retelling of Baadsha Zulqarneen

Recording of Badshahi Khan, a farmer, reciting "King Zulqarneen," in the Yasin dialect. This is a popular story that followed Islam to the area, and the King represents a barrier from the apocalypse.
Date: May 12, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about Santan and Savitri's schedules captions transcript

Conversation about Santan and Savitri's schedules

Santan and Savitri discuss what they were doing in the village and their plans for the week. The recording was made in Rakchham village, nearby the main temple.
Date: May 27, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Dana Wazir transcript

Retelling of Dana Wazir

Recording of Hasil Murad reciting "Dana Wazir," a popular story in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski.
Date: May 30, 2010
Creator: Karim, Piar
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of Limpi Kisar (open access)

Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of Limpi Kisar

Transcription, translation and linguistic analysis of Gul Nasreen reciting "Limpi Kisar," a popular story in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski. In this popular story Limpi Kisar was married to a woman, and she was stolen on their wedding day by an ogre. He travels up mountains to get his wife back. Transcription done in Burushaski with translations and analysis in English.
Date: May 25, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Limpi Kisar (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Limpi Kisar

Transcription of Gul Nasreen reciting "Limpi Kisar," a popular story in the Hunza dialect of Burushaski. In this popular story Limpi Kisar was married to a woman, and she was stolen on their wedding day by an ogre. He travels up mountains to get his wife back. Transcription done in Burushaski with translations in English.
Date: May 25, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retellling of A Black and White Thread Ball (open access)

Transcription: Retellling of A Black and White Thread Ball

Transcription of Laila Khan reciting "A Black and White Thread Ball" in the Hunza dialect. In this popular story a young shepherd abandons his duties in order to court a girl who was born out of gold and silver to poor parents. Transcription done in Burushaski with translations in English.
Date: May 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Shari Bano from Fairyland (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Shari Bano from Fairyland

Transcription of the recording of Laila Khan, a Hunza Burushaski speaker, reciting the story of "Shari Shaskulum Shari bano" ('Shari Bano of Fairyland'), a popular story, with translations in English.
Date: May 26, 2010
Creator: Karim, Piar
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal narrative about college life

This is a personal narrative about college life
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of a poem entitled "A Poet's Life" transcript

Performance of a poem entitled "A Poet's Life"

Recording of Safdar Jan reciting "A Poet's Life," a poem in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski.
Date: May 13, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Tiliti Tham transcript

Retelling of Tiliti Tham

Recording of Badshai Khan (Tataku), a speaker of Yasin Burushaski, reciting the story of Tiliti Tham.
Date: May 12, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of possession transcript

Elicitation of possession

Sumshot Khular provides nouns with possessive prefixes. This list was used to measure the length of the reduced prefix syllable in different phonetic contexts.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading of SIL word list transcript

Reading of SIL word list

Shobhana Chelliah and Tyler Utt eliciting words from the SIL word list with Sumshot Khular.
Date: May 30, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of words from SIL word list transcript

Elicitation of words from SIL word list

Jane Lorenzen eliciting words based on the SIL word list with Sumshot Khular.
Date: May 5, 2016
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of A Black and White Thread Ball transcript

Retelling of A Black and White Thread Ball

A reciting of "A Black and White Thread Ball" by Laila Khan, a housewife, in the Hunza dialect. In this popular story a young shepherd abandons his duties in order to court a girl who was born out of gold and silver to poor parents.
Date: May 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retelling of Shuwa Wau transcript

Retelling of Shuwa Wau

Recording of Namak Alam reciting "Shuwa wau," in the Yasin dialect. This is a popular story that shows the importance of good morals in life.
Date: May 5, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on Misgar Valley transcript

Monologue on Misgar Valley

A recording of Pari Nimo reciting a Historical narrative and poem about the Misgar valley in the Hunza dialect. “Misgar Valley” explains a little bit about who came to Misgar from Baltit.
Date: May 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the current economic situation captions transcript

Conversation about the current economic situation

Nand and Sunder discuss the overall economic situation in India and compare the current situation with that of 5-10 years earlier (2000s). The recording was made in Vinod Kumar Negi's garden in Rakchham village.
Date: May 26, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about transhumance and climate change captions transcript

Conversation about transhumance and climate change

Bijender and Tikam discuss the practice of transhumance, which is when animal flocks are moved to higher pastures at the start of a new season. They are asked whether this practice is still necessary, in light of climate change. The recording was made at Tikam's house (and shop) in Rakchham village.
Date: May 26, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about teaching Chhitkul-Rakchham at school captions transcript

Conversation about teaching Chhitkul-Rakchham at school

Raj and Sahdev discuss whether the Chhitkul-Rakchham language should be taught at school. They are members of the current leadership of Rakchham village ('Panchayat'), elected in 2015. The recording was made after a a long meeting with members of the Panchayat at the Panchayat building ('Panchayat Bhawan') in Rakchham village.
Date: May 27, 2019
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library