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Personal narrative of Sartaj Bibi

Description: Recording of a personal narrative of Sartaj Bibi (23-year old housewife). In this narrative, Sartaj Bibi gives an account of her routine work schedule on a typical day as a housewife.
Date: July 14, 2019
Duration: 56 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of nominative pronouns

Description: Recording of an elicitation of nominative (subject) pronouns in Mankiyali using English sentences as prompts. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: September 20, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Mortensen, Jessica
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of mass nouns

Description: Recording of an elicitation of mass nouns in Mankiyali. Some of the words covered include water, milk, rice, hay, tea, and grass. The contributor is Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher.
Date: November 5, 2019
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Dale, Merrion
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of words with open long syllables (1)

Description: Recording of This is an elicitation of words with open long syllables (CVV) in different positions. The purpose is to determine the relative weight of open long syllables for primary word stress placement. Ali Khan is a male teacher who is 31 years old at the time of recording.
Date: April 19, 2021
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: Aurangzeb
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of words with closed long syllables

Description: Recording of an elicitation of words with closed long syllables (CVVC) in different positions. The purpose is to determine the relative weight of closed long syllables for primary word stress placement. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: April 29, 2021
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: Aurangzeb
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of words comprised of syllables with equal weight (2)

Description: Recording of an elicitation of words comprised of syllables with equal weight. The purpose is to determine the default primary stress position in Mankiyali when syllable weight is not a factor. The contributor is Atta-Ur Rehman. a 37-year old male teacher.
Date: May 16, 2021
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Aurangzeb
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of numerals

Description: Recording of an elicitation of numerals, including numbers 1-25, 30, 40, etc. as well as ordinal numbers first, second, third. etc. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: December 17, 2019
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Shah, Midhat
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue about the cruelty of a former ruler of Tanawal

Description: Recording of a historical narrative about the cruelty of a former ruler of a small (erstwhile) state called Amb State or Tanawal. The contributor is Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher from Danna.
Date: November 26, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Iqbal, Javid
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue about a cruel Nawab and a daring escape

Description: Recording of a historical narrative about one of the ancestors of the speaker/narrator who was attempting to escape the cruel oppression of the ruling Nawab of his time. The contributor is Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: November 26, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Iqbal, Javid
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of grammatical mood

Description: Recording of an elicitation of grammatical mood in Mankiyali, including declarative, interrogative, imperative, and subjunctive sentences. The contributor is Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher.
Date: December 9, 2019
Duration: 14 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Iqbal, Javid
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of verb paradigms

Description: This is an elicitation of Mankiyali verb paradigms based on English sentences used as prompts. The speakers are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male).
Date: September 23, 2019
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Iqbal, Javid
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of a poem about a happy life

Description: This is a poem by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male). In this poem he says that the whole world is like our home, we should live a happy life by co-operating with each other.
Date: March 10, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of nouns

Description: This is an elicitation of Mankiyali nouns and pronouns based on English sentences used as prompts. The speakers are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 37-year old male).
Date: September 12, 2019
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Shah, Midhat
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative of Sultan Khan

Description: In this monologue Sultan Khan (a 54-year old male driver) recollects his childhood memories when he was studying in class 8th. He narrates how he once fled from home to Sargodha and then to Lahore with a friend, and about the subsequent events. The other speakers in this recording are Muhammad Rafiq (a 28-year old male) and Muhammad Mushtaq (a 25-year old male).
Date: July 15, 2019
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional Story about the saying "Unity is Strength"

Description: This is a traditional story about a king who teaches his sons that unity is strength. He explains that one person by himself, just like one stick, can be broken easily, but many people together, like many sticks, cannot be so easily broken. Aurangzeb (born 1985) told the story while Gohar Rehman, born 1981, listened.
Date: July 14, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of poems about FLI and an itinerant merchant

Description: These are two small poems by Muhammad Aslam (a 37-year old male). The first one is about FLI (Forum for Language Initiatives); the second one is about a traditional man who brings some stuff to sell.
Date: February 9, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of clearing snow from roofs

Description: In this recording, Muhammad Suleman, a 35-year old male teacher, talks about the methods which people in Danna use to clear snow from the rooftops of their homes. Wooden tools are used to brush snow from the roofs of houses when snow builds up on the rooftops. The speaker was born in 1983.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the story about two brothers

Description: Recording of a story about two brothers in which the elder brother used to oppress the younger brother. The younger brother, by chance, found a magical handmill which made him rich by producing everything that he would demand. The elder brother tried to steal this magical handmill and by his own stupidity and greed he killed himself and also drowned the mill in the river. The contributor Nargis Bibi is a 38-year old housewife.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life

Description: Recording of a monologue about the hardship of a woman's ancestors before they had electricity and other advanced facilities. She notes that her people are lazy and lack unity now that they have commodities, but her ancestors were strong. The speaker is Nargis Bibi (a 40-year old housewife).
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative of Khurshaid Bibi

Description: This is a monologue by Khurshaid Bibi (a 50-year old female) about her life, how she got married, subsequent problems and her final coping with them.
Date: February 8, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of positional adverbs

Description: Recording of an elicitation of positional adverbs based on English words and sentences used as prompts. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: September 27, 2019
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Partner: UNT College of Information

Personal narrative of Muhammad Awaiz

Description: Recording of a personal narrative by Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male) in which the speaker talks about the economic hardships he endured as a student up until high school. He then moved to a far off big city in search of a job. There, he acquired a government job which helped him improve his financial situation. In this light, he reiterates his resolve to provide his children better education and better opportunities.
Date: March 10, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of agricultural terms

Description: This is a recording of a wordlist for agricultural terms contributed by Aurangzeb, a 34-year old male teacher.
Date: December 16, 2019
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Iqbal, Javid
Partner: UNT College of Information
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