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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

Personal narrative about home life and school

Description: This is a narrative about the speaker's hometown, friends and family, and educational institutions.
Date: May 20, 2019
Duration: 45 seconds
Creator: Boro, Hirok Jyoti Lahari
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 verb paradigms

Description: Recording of an elicitation of basic verb paradigms in Mankiyali in the simple present tense forms. The verbs covered are copula 'be' and verbs such as 'eat', 'drink', 'laugh' and 'sing'. The contributors are Aurangzeb (a 34-year old male teacher) and Gohar-Ur Rehman (a 38-year old male shop owner).
Date: September 20, 2019
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Paramore, Jonathan Charles
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the story of greed is curse

Description: This is a retelling of the story of three friends by Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) with Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the three friends once found some money and decided to divide it among themselves. However, each one of them was trying to cheat the others. Finally, no one gets the money and all three end up dead.
Date: January 20, 2019
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the story of a witty man

Description: This is a traditional story which involves a descriptive riddle about a witty man who needs to take a lion, a goat and a load of leaves across a river. The caveat is that the man cannot take all three in one go. (Note: the narrator inadvertently refers to the goat as a jackal in the beginning). In this recording, the speaker Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male speaker who works as a driver) is addressing Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male government servant).
Date: January 20, 2019
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Partner: UNT College of Information
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[Oral history interview with David Hearn]

Description: Oral history interview with David Hearn. Topics covered include Hearn's upbringing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, his coming out story, his career at J. C. Penney's, and his founding of the Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund.
Date: August 20, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Testa, Nino
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Elicitation of determiners

Description: Recording of an elicitation of determiners in Mankiyali using English sentences as prompts. The recording is contributed by Gohar-Ur Rehman, a 38-year old shop owner.
Date: September 20, 2019
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Mortensen, Jessica
Partner: UNT College of Information
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