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Story: Chicken and Pig (Kewhi Tenyidie)

Description: A story told in Sopvoma (Kewhi Tenyidie), translated by the informant from English. This is a popular English fable about business commitment where the pig is asked to povide ham and the chicken is to provide eggs.
Date: July 30, 2024
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story in Kiwe Tenyidie

Description: A traditional story from Kigwema told in Kiwe Tenyidie. This story narrates the origin of a man turning into a monkey.
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

About the origin of Kiwe (in Kiwe Tenyidie)

Description: This is the recording on the origin of the name Kiwe, in Kiwe Tenyidie, by a native villager of Kigwema. (The informant points out that this might not necessarily be the generally accepted theory.)
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 50 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Two stories in Kiwe Tenyidie

Description: Two stories told in a jumbled way, mixed up by the informant, told in Kiwe Tenyidie. The story is about a stepdaughter who goes away to live with an older couple. (Collector responds in Standardised Tenyidie.)
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of Jokha words and in target sentence

Description: Wordlist of various words in Jokha Tenyidie, along with the words elicitated in the target sentence "Zhovi said X". The wordlist is compiled by the creator and is a curated version of the Leipzig-Jakarta List.
Date: January 15, 2024
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story in Jokha Tenyidie

Description: This is the recording of a Jokha grandmother in Jokha Tenyidie narrating a traditional story. The story tells about a cunning ant who gets a gaur and goes about bragging to other animals.
Date: January 14, 2024
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation in Jokha Tenyidie

Description: A conversation with a Jokha grandmother in Jokha Tenyidie, prompted by her daughters in Jokha and the collector in Kewhi Tenyidie. The informant describes briefly how they moved from one place to another, got married and setteld in Kohima. Then they talked about going to the church the morning of the recording.
Date: January 7, 2024
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story: Chicken and Pig (Sopvoma)

Description: A story told in Sopvoma (Punanamai village), translated by the informant from English. This is a popular English fable about a business commitment where the pig is asked to povide ham and the chicken is to provide eggs.
Date: January 18, 2024
Duration: 41 seconds
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Meyase's Tenyi Wordlist

Description: This is the wordlist compiled by the creator, curated from the Leipzig-Jakarta list to fit Tenyidie and related languages.
Date: August 30, 2024
Creator: Savio Meyase
Partner: UNT College of Information
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