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Transcription: Traditional story about Sumphaai and Raangleen

Description: Transcription of a retelling of Sumphaai le Raangleen paomin (the Story of Sumphaai and Raangleen), as narrated by Swamy Tholung Ksen. To please his wife, Ranglen sells his sister Sumphaai to a rich man. The rich man's wife tests her to see whether she is a careful or careless person. The rich woman's son marries Sumphaai. Many years later Rangleen hosts the Merit Feast and wants to invite his sister, but expecting that she will refuse, he sends word to her that he has died in order to lure her. more
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Traditional story about the Tiger and the Reindeer

Description: Transcription of a retelling of Humpii paa leh tyuk paa paomin (Story of the Tiger and the Reindeer), as narrated by Beshot Khullar. The tiger and the deer decide to race, and have the winner eat the loser. The tiger wins, and the deer asks for a day to go home and fatten up. On his way home, the deer meets a frog, who asks why the deer is so worried. The frog devises a way for the deer a way to trick the tiger, telling it to collect animal bones and pile them up around the frog, and retreat. T… more
Date: August 17, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam

Description: Transcription of a Benglam story as told by Elvish Sankhil. Long ago humans lived underground. Porcupines helped them escape onto the surface of the earth. There was a tiger lying in wait to eat them when they emerged. Benglam convinces sparrows to fly out, and threatens to shoot the tiger with his arrows.
Date: September 2, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Retelling of the Story of Invading the Village Haika

Description: Transcription of retelling of Raal ki paomin (Invading the Village Haika) told by Shetwor Dilbung, in which we get an account of how the Kuki (Khungsai) people invaded the village Haika to take revenge on a Lamkang man for killing a Kuki woman. At the time of the invasion, the people of Haika were celebrating the Merit Feast (Totlang). When the attack was announced, people at first did not believe it.
Date: August 28, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Khular, Sumshot & Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of ornaments and dress words

Description: This document is part of a larger wordlist created by the Tribal Language Institute of Manipur. The Lamkang translations were initally collected by Harimohon Thounaojam and then recollected with tones by Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: unknown
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar

Description: Handwritten field notes on Lamkang language including information on paradigms, verb stem alternation, verbless clauses, orthography, tone, inflected determiner clauses, applicatives, case marking, evidentials.
Date: 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Traditional story about the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares

Description: Transcription of a retelling of Sraa nao le svang nao ktaang ktloo ki paomin (the Story of the Poor Boy and the Rich Boy Making Snares), as told by Belun Sankhil. One of several retellings of a traditional story where the rich hunter switches his quarry, a bird, with that of his poor hunting partner, absurdly claiming his trap up high in a tree had caught a deer. In this version it is the fox who parodies the rich hunter's reasoning by claiming he burnt his feet during a flood.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of Lamkang words

Description: Wordlist of various words in English and Lamkang, with categories including nature, kinship, and animals. The word list was compiled by the Manipuri Language Cell for eliciting basic words for sketches and dictionaries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Lamkang Hymnal

Description: Lamkang Hyms written in an older orthography. A few of the contributors are listed in the preface.
Date: November 19, 2009
Creator: Lamkang (Ksen) Naga Christian Literature Society
Partner: UNT College of Information
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List of Lamkang words

Description: Wordlist of various words in English and Lamkang, with categories including animals, fruits and vegetables, insects, ailments, months, days, body parts, and colors. The list was created by the Tribal Languages of Manipur institute.
Date: January 2007
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
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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