Social:Himalayan Languages Project

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The Himalayan Languages Project, launched in 1993, is a research collective based at Leiden University and comprising much of the world's authoritative research on the lesser-known and endangered languages of the Himalayas, in Nepal, China , Bhutan, and India . Its members regularly spend months or years at a time doing field research with native speakers. The Director of the Himalayan Languages Project is George van Driem. Project members include Mark Turin and Jeroen Wiedenhof. The project recruits graduate students to collect field data on little-known languages for their Ph.D. dissertations.

The Himalayan Languages Project was officially commissioned by the government of Bhutan to devise a standard romanization of Dzongkha.

Since George van Driem's move to the University of Bern, many members of the Himalayan Languages Project are now based out of Switzerland .

Languages studied

The project has completed comprehensive grammars of the following languages:

  • Limbu
  • Dumi
  • Dzongkha
  • Wambule
  • Kulung
  • Jero

The project is currently working on comprehensive grammars of the following languages:

  • Manchad
  • Lohorung
  • Thangmi
  • Sunwar
  • Lhokpu
  • Sampang
  • Gongduk
  • Olekha
  • Gyalrong
  • Lepcha
  • Chulung
  • Dhimal

The project has completed grammatical sketches of the following languages:

  • Bumthang
  • Byangsi
  • Puma
  • Rabha
  • Rongpo

Members of the project are currently working on grammatical sketches of the following languages:

The project has also studied Kusunda, a language isolate of Nepal.

Himalayan Languages Symposium

Members of the Himalayan Languages Project also regularly organise the Himalayan Languages Symposium, an annual conference on Trans-Himalayan languages.[1][2] Conferences have been held annually since 1995.

Below is a list of past conferences.[3]

Event Location Country Date Year
HLS 1 Leiden  Netherlands June 16–17 1995
HLS 2 Noordwijkerhout  Netherlands October 11–12 1996
HLS 3 Santa Barbara, California  United States July 17–20 1997
HLS 4 Pune  India December 7–9 1998
HLS 5 Kathmandu    Nepal September 13–15 1999
HLS 6 Milwaukee, Wisconsin  United States June 15–17 2000
HLS 7 Uppsala  Sweden September 7–9 2001
HLS 8 Bern   Switzerland September 19–22 2002
HLS 9 Mysore  India December 9–12 2003
HLS 10 Thimphu  Bhutan December 1–3 2004
HLS 11 Bangkok  Thailand December 6–9 2005
HLS 12 Kathmandu    Nepal November 26–29 2006
HLS 13 Shimla  India October 22–24 2007
HLS 14 Göteborg  Sweden August 21–23 2008
HLS 15 Eugene, Oregon  United States July 30–August 1 2009
HLS 16 London  United Kingdom September 2–5 2010
HLS 17 Kobe  Japan September 6–9 2011
HLS 18 Varanasi  India September 10–12 2012
HLS 19 Canberra  Australia September 6–8 2013
HLS 20 Singapore  Singapore July 16–18 2014
HLS 21 Kirtipur    Nepal November 26–28 2015
HLS 22 Guwahati  India June 8–10 2016
HLS 23 Tezpur  India July 5–7 2017
HLS 24 Lucknow  India June 8–10 2018
HLS 25 Sydney  Australia June 28–29 2019
HLS 26 Paris  France September 4–6 2023
HLS 27 Guwahati  India June 12–14 2024

See also

  • Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
  • International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

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