Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life

Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life

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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).

Physical Description

1 recording (4 mins., 9 secs.)

Creation Information

Anjum, Uzma February 8, 2019.

Context

This audio recording is part of the collection entitled: Mankiyali Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 46 times. More information about this recording can be viewed below.

Collector

Anjum, Uzma

Speaker

Bibi, Nargis

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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).

Physical Description

1 recording (4 mins., 9 secs.)

Subjects

Keywords

Language

Mankiyali

Item Type

Sound

Identifier

Unique identifying numbers for this recording in the Digital Library or other systems.

Accession or Local Control No: nlm20190208mpn1_02
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1705968

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Monologue on hardships of ancestors and the ease of current life; ark:/67531/metadc2125398/

Collections

This recording is part of the following collections of related materials.

Mankiyali Language Resource

Recordings of language materials in Mankiyali (ISO 639-3 nlm), a highly endangered language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family (Total number of speakers: approximately 500). Mankiyali is primarily spoken in two remote villages, viz. Danna and Dameka in the Oghi Tehsil of Mansehra District in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.

Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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