Conversation at Aquil Ahmad’s agricultural farm

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This is a video recording of a conversation of Aquil Ahmad at his farm with the farm laborers and when visiting his farms. The conversation starts with Mr. Aquil introducing and enumerating the benefits of technology in agriculture, such as the ‘Superseeder’ machine that plows the stubble left after harvesting and sows the seeds. Then he directs his workers on how to scatter the seeds and fertilizer. After that, Mr. Musafir arrives, and Mr. Aquil discusses the various farm produce in recent years and the required efforts and challenges involved. Then he asks Mr. Musafir to share his personal accounts … continued below

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1 recording (1 hr., 15 min., 5 sec.)

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Shaikh, Maaz December 2, 2020.

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This video is part of the collection entitled: Azamgarhi Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 80 times. More information about this video can be viewed below.

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  • Main Title: Conversation at Aquil Ahmad’s agricultural farm
  • Parallel Title: عقیل احمد كے كھیت پر ہویٔ بات چیت كی ویڈیو ركارڈنگ
  • Parallel Title: अक़ील अहमद के खेत पर हुई बातचीत की विडियो रिकॉर्डिंग
  • Parallel Title: Maaz Shaikh Collection

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This is a video recording of a conversation of Aquil Ahmad at his farm with the farm laborers and when visiting his farms. The conversation starts with Mr. Aquil introducing and enumerating the benefits of technology in agriculture, such as the ‘Superseeder’ machine that plows the stubble left after harvesting and sows the seeds. Then he directs his workers on how to scatter the seeds and fertilizer. After that, Mr. Musafir arrives, and Mr. Aquil discusses the various farm produce in recent years and the required efforts and challenges involved. Then he asks Mr. Musafir to share his personal accounts with the researcher. Mr. Aquil too shares his personal experiences from the past. Later on, they both talk about political issues.

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1 recording (1 hr., 15 min., 5 sec.)

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This recording is an excellent example of a conversation in Azamgarh between speakers of two different languages — Azamgarhi and Bhojpuri — smoothly taking place in their respective languages without the need of switching to the addressee's speech as mutual intelligibility is quite high between them

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Azamgarhi Language Resource

This collection includes audio and video recordings of texts; transcriptions, translations, interlinear glossing, and analyses of selected texts; digitized copies of fieldwork notes and photographs documenting fieldwork and other events. The texts are in different genres, such as traditional and children's stories, popular legends, historical accounts, personal narratives, natural conversations, dramas, folk songs, poems, food recipes, discussions on events or items of cultural importance, and discussions on language and linguistic data. Some of them are also in Awadhi and Bhojpuri languages given with a view of (socio)linguistic comparison, whereas some are the outcomes of dialect surveys undertaken to determine the extent of the Azamgarhi language.

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Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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  • December 2, 2020

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  • May 21, 2021, 6:13 a.m.

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  • June 9, 2021, 11:14 a.m.

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Shaikh, Maaz. Conversation at Aquil Ahmad’s agricultural farm, video, December 2, 2020; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1803931/: accessed December 7, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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