This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.
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Main Title:
Retelling of the story of a woman's wisdom, 2
Parallel Title:
Kuṛɪɪlɪṇa sɪyaṇtoob, 2
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This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.
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Mankiyali Language Resource
Recordings of language materials in Mankiyali (ISO 639-3 nlm), a highly endangered language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family (Total number of speakers: approximately 500). Mankiyali is primarily spoken in two remote villages, viz. Danna and Dameka in the Oghi Tehsil of Mansehra District in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
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.
This is a traditional story about a savage prince who used to marry women and kill them afterwards without any apparent reason. Eventually, he got married to a wise woman who gave him a lesson and turned him into a gentleman. Nargis Bibi is a housewife who is 38 years old at the time of recording.
This is a retelling of a story about an evil man (a king/prince) who used to get married and then kill his wives. Eventually, he married a very wise girl, and she used her wisdom to make him a gentle man. In this recording, the narrator Abdul Qayum (a 59-year old male factory worker) is addressing Alam Zeb (a 32-year old male teacher).