Conversation at an agricultural farm

One of 90 items in the series: Maaz Shaikh Collection available on this site.

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This is a video recording of a conversation between Aquil Ahmad and two women farm laborers who can be seen braiding the stalks of paddy in someone's farms while others are heaping the stalks in the background. The conversation starts with Mr. Aquil discussing a laborer who had ditched him. Then he talks about the current year's weather condition and the farm produce.

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1 recording (5 min., 41 sec.)

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Shaikh, Maaz November 26, 2020.

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This video is part of the collection entitled: Azamgarhi 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 216 times. More information about this video can be viewed below.

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  • Main Title: Conversation at an agricultural farm
  • Parallel Title: كھیت پر ہویٔ بات چیت كی ویڈیو ركارڈنگ
  • Parallel Title: खेत पर हुई बातचीत की विडियो रिकॉर्डिंग
  • Series Title: Maaz Shaikh Collection

Description

This is a video recording of a conversation between Aquil Ahmad and two women farm laborers who can be seen braiding the stalks of paddy in someone's farms while others are heaping the stalks in the background. The conversation starts with Mr. Aquil discussing a laborer who had ditched him. Then he talks about the current year's weather condition and the farm produce.

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1 recording (5 min., 41 sec.)

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This recording is an excellent example of a conversation in Azamgarh between speakers of two different languages — Azamgarhi and Bhojpuri — smoothly taking place in their respective languages without the need of switching to the addressee's speech as mutual intelligibility is quite high between them

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Azamgarhi Language Resource

This collection includes audio and video recordings of texts; transcriptions, translations, interlinear glossing, and analyses of selected texts; digitized copies of fieldwork notes and photographs documenting fieldwork and other events. The texts are in different genres, such as traditional and children's stories, popular legends, historical accounts, personal narratives, natural conversations, dramas, folk songs, poems, food recipes, discussions on events or items of cultural importance, and discussions on language and linguistic data. Some of them are also in Awadhi and Bhojpuri languages given with a view of (socio)linguistic comparison, whereas some are the outcomes of dialect surveys undertaken to determine the extent of the Azamgarhi language.

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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  • November 26, 2020

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  • May 21, 2021, 6:13 a.m.

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  • Oct. 14, 2022, 3:34 p.m.

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Total Uses: 216

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  • 25.7834, 83.0282

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Shaikh, Maaz. Conversation at an agricultural farm, video, November 26, 2020; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1803927/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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