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Reading of the Escape of the Younger Brother

Description: Rex Khullar reads a connected text "Escape of the Younger Brother." This is a sample text provided in the sketch on Lamkang in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. The text was later re-recorded with corrections and commentary by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: May 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of the Squirrel Story

Description: A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.
Date: May 17, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 01 second
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Description: Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about the Origin of the Lamkang, Part 1

Description: Origin of the Lamkang, Part 1 as told by Bunghon Suungnem, who retells a traditional history of how in the beginning of creation man and animals spoke the same language and how man was given the authority to name the birds and animals and everything that is therein.
Date: August 26, 2009
Duration: 46 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Interview about traditional tools

Description: A review of how some foods are cooked and naming of traditional tools by Beshot Khullar using a picture stimulus from a magazine called the "Souvenir".
Date: May 2008
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of the Raapa Story

Description: Translation of story of Raapa as told by Bunghon Suungnem. In this story, a tiger, angry at being duped by Koreng, eats him. Koreng's sisters vow to marry whoever kills the tiger, and the only one able to do it is Raapa. Jealous, the other men conspire to kill Raapa, but he survives two attempts and tricks them so that they drown. In the end Koreng's sisters kill Raapa.
Date: August 26, 2009
Duration: 4 hours 52 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of The Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen

Description: Beshot Khullar of Phaaidam village, Chandel, tells the story of Sumphaai leh Raangleen [Sumphaai and Raangleen]. The story was collected by Rengpu Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam at the NSF-funded storytelling festival in 2009. The narration was transcribed by Reverend Daniel Tholung. This recording is of the translation discussion between Shobhana Chelliah and Daniel Tholung at the UNT in 2010.
Date: August 26, 2009
Duration: 33 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about the Seven Sons

Description: The Story of Seven Sons as told by Angtoi Sankhil. A man is killed by a tiger, and as his six sons go to avenge him, he kills them too one by one. The mother is pregnant with a seventh son, who is able to foretell events while still in the womb. After the child learns how his father died, he goes to confront the tiger and his wife. He avoids the tiger's attempt to kill him, takes back his father's head from the tiger's possession, and vanquishes the tiger.
Date: 2009
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of verb paradigms, part 3

Description: Recording of analytic discussion of verb paradigms at the 2016 Orthography workshop at the Don Bosco Workshop. The discussion was guided by David Peterson and Shobhana Chelliah and included Swamy Tholung, Sumshot Khular, Donnu Sankhil, Rex Rengpu Khullar.
Date: January 22, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information
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