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.

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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]

EventLocationCountryDateYear
HLS 1 Leiden Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands June 16–171995
HLS 2 Noordwijkerhout Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands October 11–121996
HLS 3 Santa Barbara, California Flag of the United States.svg  United States July 17–201997
HLS 4 Pune Flag of India.svg  India December 7–91998
HLS 5 Kathmandu Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal September 13–151999
HLS 6 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Flag of the United States.svg  United States June 15–172000
HLS 7 Uppsala Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden September 7–92001
HLS 8 Bern Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland September 19–222002
HLS 9 Mysore Flag of India.svg  India December 9–122003
HLS 10 Thimphu Flag of Bhutan.svg  Bhutan December 1–32004
HLS 11 Bangkok Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand December 6–92005
HLS 12 Kathmandu Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal November 26–292006
HLS 13 Shimla Flag of India.svg  India October 22–242007
HLS 14 Gothenburg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden August 21–232008
HLS 15 Eugene, Oregon Flag of the United States.svg  United States July 30–August 12009
HLS 16 London Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom September 2–52010
HLS 17 Kobe Flag of Japan.svg  Japan September 6–92011
HLS 18 Varanasi Flag of India.svg  India September 10–122012
HLS 19 Canberra Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia September 6–82013
HLS 20 Singapore Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore July 16–182014
HLS 21 Kirtipur Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal November 26–282015
HLS 22 Guwahati Flag of India.svg  India June 8–102016
HLS 23 Tezpur Flag of India.svg  India July 5–72017
HLS 24 Lucknow Flag of India.svg  India June 8–102018
HLS 25 Sydney Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia June 28–292019
HLS 26 Paris Flag of France.svg  France September 4–62023
HLS 27 Guwahati Flag of India.svg  India June 12–142024
HLS 28 Eugene, Oregon Flag of the United States.svg  United States August 2–32025 [4]

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.
  4. ↑ "Co-located Conferences". Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute: July 7-August 8, 2025 at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
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