Traditional narrative about Soombeel (open access)

Traditional narrative about Soombeel

Transcription of a retelling of Soombeel paomin (the Story of Soombeel), as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khular at Thamlakhuren village, recorded by Daniel Tholung.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Conversation about traditonal stories and songs (open access)

Transcription: Conversation about traditonal stories and songs

Transcription of a discussion about and performance of a traditional Lamkang song. Recorded at Swamy Tholung's. David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah were invited for lunch. At that event, elders were invited to come in talk for the recorder.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation based on LLEC word list (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation based on LLEC word list

Transcription of elicitation sessions based on the LLEC word list.
Date: 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of directional nouns (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of directional nouns

Transcription of an elicitation session of how space is encoded in Lamkang. The sentences were based on those in an LTBA (Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area) article on Qiang languages that was under review at the time of elicitation.
Date: November 16, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of optatives (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of optatives

Transcription of an elicitation of optatives in Lamkang. The purpose of the elicitation was to investigate optative verb forms. All sentences are of the type "[X] should give a book to [Y]". Recorded from Lamkang speaker Sumshot Khular at UNT.
Date: August 10, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give' (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give'

Transcription of an elicitation session of the paradigm for the verb 'give'.
Date: August 25, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Beshot Khullar of Phaaidaam Village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Daniel (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Daniel

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Daniel Tholung Thamlakhuren and translated by Sumshot Khular into English and inputting in SayMore.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy

Transcription of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Kennedy Dilbung of Charangching Khunkha village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Sumshot (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Sumshot

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), narrated by Sumshot Khular.
Date: ~2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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 told by Swamy Tholung Ksen. Two brothers Arthluk and Rangchel fell in love with the same girl, Sombel, who loved Rangchel. There were also a tiger and wildcat who were friends. The tiger asked the wildcat how to catch chickens. The wildcat fools him, and the tiger threatens to eat the wildcat.The wildcat tells the tiger to wait and he will catch a woman for him. He was not able to catch Sombel who was guarded by her dogs, so instead they perform magic on her, making her ill. The tiger turned into a human and offered to heal her in exchange for her hand in marriage. Reversing their spell, he healed her and took her away to a faraway place she had never been, and turned back into a tiger. Arthluk and Rangchel heard her cry of distress, and reported to her parents, who ask the villagers for help. Only Arthluk and Rangchel agreed to go after her. Sombel learned they were coming when she finds a leaf bearing the scent of the brothers. When they arrived, Sombel hid them from the tiger, …
Date: August 30, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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
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
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
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 (the Squirrel Story), as told by Bunghon Sankhil of Keithelmanbi Lamkang village in Chandel District Manipur.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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 (The Squirrel Story), as narrated by Bunghon Sankhil.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Description of travel plans with modals (open access)

Transcription: Description of travel plans with modals

Transcription of Sumshot Khular discussing what it's like to travel to the USA with Daniel Tholung, Shobhana Chelliah, and Mary Burke. This conversation took place in Sumshot's living room on the January 11, 2018 in Thamlakhuren village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: January 2018
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee (open access)

Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee

Transcription of a discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlaang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Interview about Lamkang language and society (open access)

Transcription: Interview about Lamkang language and society

Rengpu Rex Khullar of Phaidam discussing with Grace Sankhil (who lives in Delhi) and Mary of Phaidam about her visit to Delhi. They also discuss the current situation of the Lamkang language and how Lamkang society is now, what needs to be done to encourage progress of the community.
Date: ~2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Monologue about home life (open access)

Transcription: Monologue about home life

Transcription of Kennedy Dilbung, studying and living in Delhi, talking about his family in Khorpii village, Chandel district, Manipur.
Date: 2017~
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Dingkaakuuk (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Dingkaakuuk

Transcription of a retelling of Dingkaakuuk paomin (the story of Dingkaakuuk), as narrated by Swamy Tholung Ksen. When a man marries, his wife cannot stand his younger brother, so he takes him into the forest and leads her to believe he killed him. The younger brother kills a tiger and marries a young woman. He encounters his elder brother again, who kills his wife for making him abandon his brother.
Date: August 6, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
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
System: The UNT Digital Library