Bal Raj Negi's occupations

Bal Raj Negi's occupations

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Description

Bal Raj Negi describes his occupations and experience in horticulture in Rakchham village and his own life before that. It was recorded at the Uma Guest House in Rakchham village, which Bal owns. Since Bal spent most of his time working outside of Rakchham village, he is actually not fluent in Chhitkul-Rakchham. Interestingly, he uses exclusively Hindi in the second half of the recording. From then on, he speaks faster, it is then very clear he is more conversant with Hindi.

Physical Description

1 recording (7 min., 14 sec.) : sd., col. ; digital

Creation Information

Martinez, Philippe Antoine November 21, 2018.

Context

This video is part of the collection entitled: Chhitkul-Rākchham Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this video can be viewed below.

Collector

Martinez, Philippe Antoine

Speaker

Raj Negi, Bal

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UNT College of Information

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Description

Bal Raj Negi describes his occupations and experience in horticulture in Rakchham village and his own life before that. It was recorded at the Uma Guest House in Rakchham village, which Bal owns. Since Bal spent most of his time working outside of Rakchham village, he is actually not fluent in Chhitkul-Rakchham. Interestingly, he uses exclusively Hindi in the second half of the recording. From then on, he speaks faster, it is then very clear he is more conversant with Hindi.

Physical Description

1 recording (7 min., 14 sec.) : sd., col. ; digital

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Apples

Languages

Item Type

Video

Identifier

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

Accession or Local Control No: AUT_cik04-BRN-2018-11-21.mp4
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc2062171

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Bal Raj Negi's occupations; ark:/67531/metadc2062169/

Collections

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

Chhitkul-Rākchham Language Resource

This collection consists of 73 recordings, amounting to about 8 hours, from an array of discourse genres: ‘monologues’, everyday conversations, picture-based tasks (Jackal and the Crow and The Family Story), autobiographical and historical narratives, procedural (traditional knowledge, festivals, ritualistic life). The corpus features 56 different speakers (44 men and 12 women) between the ages of 20-85. The choice of video was motivated by the necessity to provide rich contextual data. The use of video does justice to the sheer beauty of the surroundings – the far-off mountains of Kinnaur. This collection is a living proof that Chhitkul-Rākchham is distinct from the local lingua franca, Kinnauri, of which it is often said to be a dialect.

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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