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Conversation about why linguists record conversations

Description: Recording of a discussion among Harimohon Thounaojam, Rex Khullar, and Beshot Khullar about why linguists record conversations.
Date: May 17, 2008
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of the Prodigal Son

Description: Beshot Khullar of Phaidam reads the Prodigal Son. A landowner's second son demands his share of the inheritance before the father's death, goes off and squanders it, and returns to his father, who accepts his penitent son. The older brother, however, is upset at his father's acceptance of his returning brother.
Date: May 22, 2008
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of reduplication

Description: Discussion of reduplication with positive and negative connotations in Lamkang. Discussant are Beshot Khullar, Rengpu Rex Khullar and Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 24, 2008
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

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 Benglam

Description: Beshot Khullar tells a Benglam story. The retelling was for Shobhana Chelliah with Rex Khullar in attendance.
Date: May 2008
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
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 Lamkang proverbs

Description: Recording of a translation and discussion of Lamkang proverbs with conversation about the process in Manipuri (Meiteiron).
Date: May 5, 2008
Duration: 35 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about 1950s Boro culture

Description: This is a description of the cultural life of the Boros in Kokrajhar during the 1950s. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about college life

Description: Personal narrative about about a college student's hometown, family and friends, and educational institutions.
Date: May 22, 2019
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about hobbies

Description: This is a personal narrative about hobbies.
Date: May 24, 2019
Duration: 32 seconds
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about religious faith

Description: This is a narrative about religious belief. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 2 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about Boro society

Description: This is a narrative about personal experience on social systems of past and present. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of Bathou religion

Description: This is a narrative about belief system of the Boros. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about early life

Description: This is a personal narrative on ealry life of Mr. Ghana Kanta Basumatary, the first folk song singer to be broadcast on All India Radio, Guwahati. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative about early life

Description: This is a personal narrative about early life. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation introductions

Description: Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Duration: 30 seconds
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation introductions

Description: Two speakers give basic introductions of each other.
Date: May 20, 2019
Duration: 20 seconds
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation and radio broadcast of Boro folk song

Description: This is a folk song along with its background that was first sung and broadcast on All India Radio, Guwahati. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 8, 2009
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description about silk rearing

Description: This is a description about silk rearing and making sticky glue out of rice. Dialect: Standard Boro
Date: May 9, 2009
Duration: 1 minute
Creator: Brahma, Bihung
Partner: UNT College of Information
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