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Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar

Handwritten field notes on Lamkang language including information on paradigms, verb stem alternation, verbless clauses, orthography, tone, inflected determiner clauses, applicatives, case marking, evidentials.
Date: 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers (open access)

Transcription: Personal narrative about helping Japanese soldiers

Transcription of Sumshot Khular recounting her mother Sankhil Thampol Khularnu 's story of giving eggs to some Japanese soldiers who showed up in her village of Charlong during World War II.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicited causative constructions (open access)

Transcription: Elicited causative constructions

Transcription of an elicitation of causative constructions in Lamkang. Recorded from Sumshot Khular as part of a 2017 field methods course at UNT.
Date: 2017
Creator: Good, Wally
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares

Transcription of a retelling of Sraa nao le svang nao ktaang ktloo ki paomin (the Story of the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares), as told by Belun Sankhil. One of several retellings of a traditional story where the rich hunter switches his quarry, a bird, with that of his poor hunting partner, absurdly claiming his trap up high in a tree had caught a deer. In this version it is the fox who parodies the rich hunter's reasoning by claiming he burnt his feet during a flood.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Traditional story about Sumphaai and Rangleng

Recording of Sumphaai leh Raangleen story narrated by Grace Sankhil
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notebook of Lamkang notes (open access)

Notebook of Lamkang notes

Handwritten notes on Lamkang including notes on wh-clauses, verb agreement and negation
Date: 2014
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography and paradigms (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography and paradigms

Handwritten notes from an orthography workshop on Lamkang, held in Guwahati, Assam, India. Table of contents in the notebook.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on the status of Lamkang (open access)

Notes on the status of Lamkang

Handwritten note on errors in published works on Lamkang
Date: July 13, 2012
Creator: Sankhil, Shekarnong
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang verb agreement (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang verb agreement

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including discussions with Rex and Beshot, notes on verb agreement, directionals, and paradigms for duul 'to push' and iip 'to sleep'.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notebook of Lamkang notes (open access)

Notebook of Lamkang notes

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language.
Date: 2014
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang words and sentences (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang words and sentences

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language and historical comparisons.
Date: 2015
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang sentences (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang sentences

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including verb agreement and Pear Story discussion
Date: April 16, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical:  Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB9 (open access)

Analytical: Fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms - NB9

Handwritten fieldnotes on Lamkang verb paradigms recorded by Willem de Reuse when working with Daniel Tholung at the University of North Texas.
Date: July 16, 2010
Creator: de Reuse, Willem & Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang orthography

Handwritten notes illustrating minimal pairs contrasting [tl] and [thl] by Daniel Tholung during his visit to UNT.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Object Type: Report
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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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