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Analytical discussion of the Squirrel Story

Description: A discussion of Theipa paomin [the Squirrel Story] with Beshot Khullar about his telling of the story. This recording could be used to illustrate how linguists can get aids to analyze grammars via transcription and translation of connected text.
Date: May 17, 2008
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 01 second
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Description: Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Conversation about the Totlang Kam Festival

Description: Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar talk about the Totlang Kam Festival. The exchange is useful for cultural information, lexical items related to this important festival, and question and answer exchanges. Rengpu Rex Khullar accompanied his father Beshot Khullar to Chennai to share information on Lamkang with Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 20, 2008
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Discussion of Laa kthee

Description: Discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: May 23, 2009
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Khullar, Rengpu Rex
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Elicitation of possession

Description: Sumshot Khular provides nouns with possessive prefixes. This list was used to measure the length of the reduced prefix syllable in different phonetic contexts.
Date: May 18, 2017
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Partner: UNT College of Information

Interview about traditional tools

Description: A review of how some foods are cooked and naming of traditional tools by Beshot Khullar using a picture stimulus from a magazine called the "Souvenir".
Date: May 2008
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Monologue on documentation done on Lamkang

Description: Beshot Khullar from Phaidaam Pantha reflects on the work that has been done on Lamkang to date, expresses concern for what knowledge is being lost, and requests and thanks Shobhana Chelliah for her work on Lamkang. He mentions a Bible verse of blessings that he quotes from Psalms 126:5-6: "Those who sow in tears, shall reap with songs of joy."
Date: May 2008
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notebook of Lamkang notes

Description: Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including word by word analysis of texts. Table of contents in the notebook. Includes the recordings contributed by Daniel Tholung.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of Psalm 23

Description: A reading of Psalm 23:1-6 [Ren Paurina ungta Laa leh Pauril], from the translation of New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs by The Bible Society of India (2001-2002, 206 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore 560-001)
Date: May 22, 2008
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of the Escape of the Younger Brother

Description: Rex Khullar reads a connected text "Escape of the Younger Brother." This is a sample text provided in the sketch on Lamkang in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. The text was later re-recorded with corrections and commentary by Shekarnong Sankhil.
Date: May 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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