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Retelling of Why Are Monkeys' Bottoms Flat

Description: Sumshot Khular of Thamlakhuren retells the story of Why Monkeys Have Flat Bottoms. This retelling was stimulated by a written version created by Khumwar Suungmen of Charangching Khullen-Haikaa during a Lamkang Language Education Committee workshop in Mantri Pantha Village.
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Date: 2017
Duration: 21 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy

Description: Sumshot Khular of Thamlakhuren tells the story of The Poor Boy and the Rich Boy, originally told and written by Margret Leivon during the LLEC Mantri Pantha workshop in Manipur. The story is about a poor boy and a rich boy who went to set a trap. The poor boy's trap caught a deer and the rich boy got nothing, but he put the deer in his trap and tried to cheat the poor boy.
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Date: 2017
Duration: 30 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
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Analytical discussion of the Story of Rununuu

Description: Sumshot Khular discusses a written version of Ruunuu story explaining what the characters do and reading the written version.
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Date: February 22, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
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Analytical discussion of The Story of Khukhuu

Description: Sumshot Khular provides a word-for-word translation and morpheme analysis of the traditional story Khukhuu Paomin [The Story of Khukhuu].
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Date: February 22, 2017
Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Khular, Sumshot
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Elicitation of words for gemination

Description: Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with gemination in a frame sentence with Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word. In this version, target words do not occur in a frame sentence. This was part of the Fall 2017 LING 5300 Phonology course.
Date: November 14, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of names with VC VC sequences

Description: Sumshot Khular reads a list of names along with the agentive marker -ngi.
Date: November 6, 2017
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of reduplicated forms

Description: Sumshot Khular records a number of phrases with reduplicated modifiers. Rick Weitzman uses a prompt list to record these utterances with the speaker as part of a Phonology course at UNT in Fall 2017.
Date: October 3, 2017
Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Weitzman, Rick
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of words and names for gemination

Description: Recording of Mary Burke eliciting words with the '=a' enclitic from Sumshot Khular. Each word is a noun ending in a consonant to observe the affect of the '=a' enclitic on the final consonant of the target word. After the word list, Sumshot reads a list of personal names with the enclitic '=u' on them. In this version, target words and names do not occur in a frame sentence. This was part of the Fall 2017 LING 5300 Phonology course.
Date: November 14, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of prosodic words

Description: Levi Accord and Amber Winston record a list of prosodic words in Lamkang with speaker Sumshot Khular. This recording was done as part of the LING 5300 Phonology course at UNT.
Date: October 27, 2017
Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Accord, Levi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Kennedy

Description: A retelling of the Pear Story as recorded in Hyderabad with young speakers in the diaspora.
Date: June 9, 2017
Duration: 3 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Koko

Description: Recording of a telling of the Pear Story at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad.
Date: June 9, 2017
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of the Tiger and Squirrel story

Description: This is a recording of Sumshot Khular and Tyler Utt discussing writing samples collected at an SIL writer's workshop. The results of the discussion were used for grammar and word collection.
Date: March 15, 2017
Duration: 15 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Discussion and reading of Sumphaai and Raangleen

Description: Sumshot Khular, Jane Lorenzen, and Tyler Utt discuss the written version of a traditional story. The story was collected by Lera Ny as part of SIL's writer's workshop. Here, the three researchers use the written version to understand spelling and grammar as represented in the text.
Date: March 13, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Jessie

Description: Recording of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Jessie from Hyderabad.
Date: June 7, 2017
Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of The Two Brothers

Description: Recording of a discussion of the story of the Two Brothers between Tyler Utt and Sumshot Khular in Denton.
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Date: March 14, 2017
Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about traditional and modern health practices

Description: Recording of a young lady in Hyderabad, Ringdam, talking with Jane Lorenzen about health and wellness.
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Date: June 12, 2017
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Lorenzen, Jane
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of a traditional narrative of Bunghon Suungnem

Description: Recording of Bunghon Suungnem translating a traditional narrative from Lamkang. Shekarnong Sankhil translating into English from the voice recording.
Date: March 13, 2017
Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of a Benglam Story

Description: Sumshot Khular reads a Benglam narrative written down during a writer's workshop conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Manipur.
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Date: March 15, 2017
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
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Retelling of the Pear Story: Angam

Description: Retelling of the Pear Story by Angam Sankhil of Hyderabad.
Date: June 6, 2017
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Dina

Description: Recording of Dina Shankhil telling her version of The Pear Story.
Date: June 7, 2017
Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of The Pear Story: Steney Leivon

Description: Recording of a telling of the Pear Story by Leivon Steney Lamkang in Hyderabad, India.
Date: June 6, 2017
Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Ningthamla

Description: Recording of a telling of the Pear Story done at the Indian Institute of Information Technology with young Lamkang speakers in the diaspora.
Date: June 7, 2017
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone minimal pairs with frame

Description: Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs in a frame with Sumshot Khular.
Date: July 21, 2017
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Partner: UNT College of Information
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