Our Goals
Online Dictionary
Spelling standardization will be facilitated by a Lamkang dictionary and this will also encourage writing and use of the language. One major goal of the project is to create an online Lamkang dictionary which will include an explanation of the practical orthography; an area where speakers can contribute new words or comments on entries; and a Lamkang-English, English-Lamkang search list. It will also speed up the documentation of traditional songs and oral histories, and their preservation for posterity.
Lamkang Language Corpus at the UNT Digital Library
We are currently preparing texts to be upload to the University of North Texas Digital Library which will host the Searchable Annotated Archive of Lamkang Texts. This collection became accessible in November 2014, and complements the dictionary, providing numerous example sentences. The goal of the language archive is to foster the sharing of resources and expertise between linguists and local scholars in order to facilitate the documentation of Lamkang. The data were collected by Rex Khullar, Sumhost Khular, Daniel Tholung, and by the UNT team in two orthography and grammar workshops held in DBI Guahati (2013 and 2016) as well as conversations with speakers in Delhi, Imphal, Chandel, and Hyderabad from 2007-2018.
Grammar Description
As part of the lexical database project we are also creating a slide deck for use by the community. This deck included information on verb conjugation, reduplication, verb stem alternation, simple and complex sentences, basic phonology, adverbial morphology, inflected determine clauses, encoding space. The linguistic analysis was done at UNT in conjunction with three speakers who were here at varying times as visiting scholars. The analyzes will be checked with speakers in Manipuri in August 2018.
Spelling standardization will be facilitated by a Lamkang dictionary and this will also encourage writing and use of the language. One major goal of the project is to create an online Lamkang dictionary which will include an explanation of the practical orthography; an area where speakers can contribute new words or comments on entries; and a Lamkang-English, English-Lamkang search list. It will also speed up the documentation of traditional songs and oral histories, and their preservation for posterity.
Lamkang Language Corpus at the UNT Digital Library
We are currently preparing texts to be upload to the University of North Texas Digital Library which will host the Searchable Annotated Archive of Lamkang Texts. This collection became accessible in November 2014, and complements the dictionary, providing numerous example sentences. The goal of the language archive is to foster the sharing of resources and expertise between linguists and local scholars in order to facilitate the documentation of Lamkang. The data were collected by Rex Khullar, Sumhost Khular, Daniel Tholung, and by the UNT team in two orthography and grammar workshops held in DBI Guahati (2013 and 2016) as well as conversations with speakers in Delhi, Imphal, Chandel, and Hyderabad from 2007-2018.
Grammar Description
As part of the lexical database project we are also creating a slide deck for use by the community. This deck included information on verb conjugation, reduplication, verb stem alternation, simple and complex sentences, basic phonology, adverbial morphology, inflected determine clauses, encoding space. The linguistic analysis was done at UNT in conjunction with three speakers who were here at varying times as visiting scholars. The analyzes will be checked with speakers in Manipuri in August 2018.