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Lahu Tape 1

Description: Lahu narratives, songs, poems, and Bible readings.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on KokBorok grammar

Description: Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. There are word lists of verbs and common nouns and notes from elicitations of grammatical categories including TAM, gender, classifiers, particles, negation, subordinators, and adverbials. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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KokBorok grammar drafts and notes

Description: Notes from the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are the handwritten and typed drafts of the KokBorok grammar with notes and questions from the authors to each other. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
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Remarks on the Lahu

Description: A historical narrative describing the migration of the Lahu people from Yunnan, China to Burma, and later to Thailand.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Lahu writing

Description: A description of how the Lahu developed writing by looking at foreign scripts.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 54 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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The Widow and the Pharisees, part 1

Description: The Bible story of the widow and the Pharisees. Even though the widow has very little, she offers everything she has to the church. The moral is that everyone should contribute according to their means.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information

The Widow and the Pharisees, part 2

Description: The Bible story of the widow and the Pharisees. Even though the widow has very little, she offers everything she has to the church. The moral is that everyone should contribute according to their means.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Explanation of poetic phrases

Description: An explanation of poetic phrases used in Lahu poetry about trees and nature describing the movement of the stars, sun, and moon.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 1 minute 07 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information

How we came from Burma to Thailand

Description: A historical narrative of the Lahu's migration from Burma to Thailand describing how they survived before settling in Thailand by fishing, foraging, and offerings of tea and rice from other Lahu and Chinese villages.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 3 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Building a house

Description: A recording of a group of people building a house. They gather the materials, arrange to feed the builders, and discuss how many tiers the house should have. After thatching the roof, they raise the posts and secure the roof to the posts. Finally they build an awning, and the house is complete.
Date: [1965,1966,1970,1977]
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
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