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Transcription: Personal narrative on a crazy man

Description: Transcription and free English translation of the recording of Raja Jamsheed Ali Khan, a speaker of Srinagar Burushaski, narrating the story of a crazy man. Among the audiences present during the event is Khan's daughter, Salma. The story is more of a personal account as the narrator has witnessed the events during his lifetime.
Date: 2016
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Monologue on Misgar Valley

Description: Transcription of Pari Nimo reciting a historical narrative and poem about the Misgar valley in the Hunza dialect. “Misgar Valley” explains a little bit about who came to Misgar from Baltit. Transcription is done in Burushaski with translations in English.
Date: May 29, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Burushaski Case Marking, Agreement and Implications: an Analysis of the Hunza Dialect

Description: This thesis was written to explore the structural case patterns of the Burushaski sentence and to examine the different participant coding systems which appear between noun marking and verb agreement. Verb suffixes follow nominative alignment patterns of agreement, while the verb prefix agrees with the affected argument as determined by semantic relations, as opposed to syntactic ones. The agent noun phrase is directly marked when highly active or volitional, suggesting a system of agent markin… more
Date: December 2012
Creator: Smith, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Discussion about language documentation

Description: Video of Muhammad Wazir Khan, research assistant and speaker of Yasin Burushaski, explaining the documentation project to Qadir Khan, another native speaker of Burushaski, during fieldwork in Gilgit.
Date: unknown
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Monologue on Thuyi royal family

Description: Transcription, translation and morphemic analysis of the recording of Sarfaraz Khan, a speaker of Yasin Burushaski, giving a historical narrative on the royal family in Thuyi.
Date: June 20, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf & Khan, Muhammad Wazir
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Monologue on Thuyi royal family

Description: Transcription and translation of the recording of Sarfaraz Khan, a speaker of Yasin Burushaski, giving a historical narrative on the royal family in Thuyi.
Date: June 26, 2010
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf & Khan, Muhammad Wazir
Partner: UNT College of Information
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