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Kannada: Swadesh list (Landahl, c. 1975)

Access: 
By Request
Subject Languages: 
Kannada
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Kannada
English
Locations: 
India
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Landahl reads a Swadesh list (in English) and Murthy replies with the equivalents in Kannada (recorded at Brown University c. 1975).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Cassette may or may not be the original recording. (Gift of the Landahl estate to the LLA) The WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Landahl, Karen; and Pushpa Murthy

Spoken-literary Kannada (c. 1966)

Access: 
By Request
Subject Languages: 
Kannada
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Kannada
English
Locations: 
India
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
With one exception (a man), a native speaker (female) does both the slates (in English) and all the Kannada drills from an unidentified textbook. It appears that the purpose of the course is to contrast the "spoken" forms of Kannada with the "literary" ones. As for the locale for the language, "Karnataka" was chosen on analogy with the "Spoken Kannada" collection (q.v.).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the copies (on seven-inch reels) sent c. 1966 from an (unknown) producer [a university language lab?]; JJT wound these tapes off onto hubs in 1979. Note: On Tape 3 the lessons are not presented in order (e.g., Unit 9 follows "Unit 18".) For the rest the lessons can be identified with some degree of accuracy despite not having the text on file. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Spoken Kannada (W. Bright)

Access: 
By Request
Subject Languages: 
Kannada
Primary Languages: 
English
Languages: 
Kannada
English
Locations: 
India
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
With an American woman doing the introductions and English tokens, a native speaker (male) voices the Kannada portions of Lessons 1-7 from (an otherwise unknown) text by Bright.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the live recordings made at the Language Lab studio in 1963. Note: the primary locale for this language was determined to be Karnataka State, given that the name of Bangalore is mentioned in one of the lessons. WAVE files are now covnverted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Doraswami, K., et al. (?)