https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Himalayan_Languages_Project 2026-08-01T18:21:49Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Himalayan_Languages_Project&diff=120764&oldid=prev 2020-12-26T18:12:41Z

<p>removed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Linguistic_research_in_India&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Linguistic research in India (page does not exist)">Category:Linguistic research in India</a> using <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:HC" class="extiw" title="wp:HC">HotCat</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{ic|date=June 2017}}<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Himalayan Languages Project&#039;&#039;&#039;, launched in 1993, is a research collective based at [[Leiden University]] and comprising much of the world&#039;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]]; other top authorities include [[Mark Turin]] and [[Jeroen Wiedenhof]]. It recruits grad students to collect new field research on little-known languages as the topics for their Ph.D. dissertations.<br /> <br /> The Himalayan Languages Project was officially commissioned by the government of [[Bhutan]] to devise a standard romanization of [[Dzongkha]].<br /> <br /> == Languages studied ==<br /> Many of the languages studied by the Project are believed to be doomed to extinction in the next few years or decades, and might be lost to human knowledge but for the efforts of the Project.{{cn|date=December 2015}}<br /> <br /> The Project has completed comprehensive grammars of the following languages:<br /> *[[Limbu language|Limbu]]<br /> *[[Dumi]]<br /> *[[Dzongkha]]<br /> *[[Wambule]]<br /> *[[Kulung language (Nepal)|Kulung]]<br /> *[[Jero language|Jero]]<br /> <br /> The Project is currently working on comprehensive grammars of the following languages:<br /> *[[Pattani language|Manchad]]<br /> *[[Lohorung language|Lohorung]]<br /> *[[Thangmi language|Thangmi]]<br /> *[[Sunwar]]<br /> *[[Lhokpu language|Lhokpu]]<br /> *[[Sampang language|Sampang]]<br /> *[[Gongduk language|Gongduk]]<br /> *[[Olekha]]<br /> *[[Chiling]]<br /> *[[Gyal-rong]]<br /> *[[Lepcha language|Lepcha]]<br /> *[[Chulung language|Chulung]]<br /> *[[Dhimal]]<br /> <br /> The Project has completed grammatical sketches of the following languages:<br /> *[[Bumthang language|Bumthang]]<br /> *[[Byangsi language|Byangsi]]<br /> *[[Puma (language)|Puma]]<br /> *[[Rabha]]<br /> *[[Rongpo language|Rongpo]]<br /> <br /> The Project is currently working on grammatical sketches of the following languages:<br /> *[[Baram language|Baram]]<br /> *[[Dura language|Dura]]<br /> *[[Toto language|Toto]]<br /> <br /> The Project also studied the fall into apparent extinction of the language [[Kusunda language|Kusunda]] in Nepal, as its last speakers, who lived in the forest and subsisted by hunting, were absorbed and dispersed into the larger society.{{cn|date=December 2015}}<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> *[http://www.himalayanlanguages.org Himalayan Languages Project] official website<br /> *[http://www.kiratrai.org The Kirat Rai Association&#039;s Web Portal ]<br /> {{Leiden University}}<br /> [[Category:Linguistic research]]<br /> [[Category:Organizations established in 1993]]<br /> [[Category:Leiden University]]<br /> [[Category:1993 establishments in the Netherlands]]</div>

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