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:

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

The project has completed grammatical sketches of the following languages:

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ Himalayan Languages Symposium.
  2. ↑ Conferences[usurped]. Himalayan Languages Project.
  3. ↑ "Conference schedule". Himalayan Languages Symposium. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2024-01-20.

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