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Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa summarizing the status of Burling's description of various aspects of the language: interrogatives, modals, post-positions and subordinators, case marking, negation, TAM, and adverbials. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date: 2008-02/2009
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa with special focus on tone, vowel length, and final glottals. Includes regional word list, words with final -p and -k, and minimal pairs and triplets demonstrating vowel length distinctions in adjectival forms.
Date: 2008-03-27/2008-04
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa with a brief description of the phoneme inventory and consonant clusters and notes on grammar (case marking, plural forms, question formation, tense and aspect marking) including example phrases and sentences. Word lists cover verbs of perception, verbs of motion, interrogatives, fire, insects, units of measurement, and numerals.
Date: 2008-01-25/2008-02
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

ARPAN meeting of Raji and Bhotia women

Description: Photograph of a cluster meeting that was organized by a local NGO 'ARPAN'. At this lunch meeting, Rastogi met many Raji women to cross-check spellings of various Raji words. Bhotia tribal women were also invited. Though educationally, economically, and socially, Bhotia are better off, Rajis consider themselves King of the forest, so many elderly Raji ladies did not have food as the Bhotia ladies were cooking food.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women in Mahakali Dhaba in the Jaulibi market

Description: Photograph of a group of Raji women (Basanti, Kalawati, etc.) sitting in Mahakali Dhaba enjoying tea. There are around 7 or 8 restaurants in Jauljibi market, but they either go to Ojha's place or Mahakali. Location-wise, Mahakali is at the beginning of the market, whereas Ojha ji's dhabha is situated at the endpoint. Rajis from Ganagaon hamlet usually visit Mahakali, whereas Kimkhola residents prefer Ojha ji's dhaba.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women wearing traditional jewelry

Description: Photograph of Kavita Rastogi with two Raji women. After a lot of cajoling, Kaushalya (middle) and her friend agreed to give Rastogi some time for an interview. Kaushalya is wearing a traditional choker that she made. She is from Nepal and learned how to make jewelry from her mother.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women carrying wood to local markets

Description: Photograph of Raji women carrying wood. Every day many Raji women carry wood they collect from jungles on their heads and come to the local market to sell it. Sometimes, they directly go to Kumauni families who are their regular customers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Raji women carrying wood to local markets

Description: Photograph of Raji women carrying wood. Every day many Raji women carry wood they collect from jungles on their heads and come to the local market to sell it. Sometimes, they directly go to Kumauni families who are their regular customers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Rastogi, Kavita
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about establishing a literacy school

Description: This is a recording of Rawang speakers discussing establishing a school for teaching Rawang in their area recorded at the Tamwe Christian Center in Yangon. The classes happen on Sundays or in the evenings. They worry that students feel discouraged when they don't know parts of their language, especially older learners, so they would like to start classes when students are younger. They make a plan to train more teachers and create more books.
Date: August 2008
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school

Description: This is a conversation between Rawang speakers discussing establishing a school for teaching Rawang in their area. The classes happen on Sundays or in the evenings. They worry that students feel discouraged when they don't know parts of their language, especially older learners, so they would like to start classes when students are younger. They make a plan to train more teachers and create more books.
Date: August 2008
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Partner: UNT College of Information

Photograph of a Manipuri manuscript: Sading Sakok

Description: This is a photograph of Manipuri manuscript, known as a puya, on agar bark containing traditional lore. It is written in the Meithei Mayek script, a Brahmic script which has been used since the 11th century. It was photographed through a plastic barrier, with the label 'SADING SAKOK'.
Date: 2008~
Creator: Molinaro, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Shobhana Chelliah fieldnotes NTBK12

Description: Handwritten notes including discussion with David Peterson comparing Lamkang with Khumi and review of words from word lists collected by Harimohon Thaonaojam with Beshot Khullar.
Date: June 23, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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