Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods

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Mohitej Barman describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a student with a high school education who speaks Bengali and Hindi in addition to Dimasa. He is 25 years old at the time of recording.

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Barman, Moumita October 16, 2022.

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Mohitej Barman describes his experience during the 2022 Assam floods. The speaker is a student with a high school education who speaks Bengali and Hindi in addition to Dimasa. He is 25 years old at the time of recording.

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Dimasa Language Resource

The Dimasa Language Resource draws from a corpus of written and oral texts. The initial compilation was collected by Dhrubajit Langthasa, and analyzed by Langthasa and Jonathan Evans. The Evans-Langthasa corpus includes texts across a variety of genres. The research was sponsored by grants from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and the US National Science Foundation. Presently, it is designed to serve as a resource for Dimasa community members. Additions from other community members and researchers and welcome and encouraged.

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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  • October 16, 2022

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  • June 20, 2023, 7:11 a.m.

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  • June 26, 2023, 7:14 p.m.

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Barman, Moumita. Personal narrative about the 2022 Assam floods, audio recording, October 16, 2022; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2124554/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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