For a demise that has been predicted for over 60 years, radio is a remarkably resilient communications medium, and one that warrants deeper examination as a vehicle for the revitalization of historically marginalized and Indigenous languages.
Radio has not been eroded by the rise of new media, whether that be television, video, or newer…[Read more]

2021. Turin, Mark. The Digital Himalaya Project: Collection, Protection & Connection. Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook. https://doi.org/10.21428/51bee781.028ec770

Book review of “Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities”

As a vast and diverse linguistic grouping, Tibeto-Burman languages vary in their usage of time constructs, both morphologically and semantically. Even between genetically related languages within the Tibeto-Burman language family, approaches to elements such as suffixation vary widely, while vocabulary from Indo-Aryan and distantly related Sinitic…[Read more]

Review article on language endangerment

Sikkim encyclopedia entry

Nepal encyclopedia entry

Mount Everest encyclopedia entry

Searching for sharing: Heritage and multimedia in Africa

Minority language policies and politics in Nepal

Introduction

Orality and mobility: Documenting Himalayan voices in New York City

What next for Digital Himalaya? Reflections on community, continuity, and collaboration

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbtzpfm

https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/btwo/2014/00000004/f0020001;jsessionid=au8yjdiygbt1.x-ic-live-02

Editor’s preface and list of contributors (LDD 8)
Language documentation and description, Volume 8, Special issue: Oral literature and language endangerment
http://www.elpublishing.org/publicationpage/8

Anthropology and Shamanic considerations

Indigenous language resurgence and the living earth community

Thangmi wedding ritual texts

Across the world’s languages and cultures, most writing systems predate the use of computers. In the early years of ICT, standards and protocols for encoding and rendering the majority of the world’s writing systems were not in place. The opportunity to deploy less-commonly used orthographies in cross-platform digital contexts has steadily…[Read more]