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A Grammar of the Thangmi Language
A noteworthy publication: linguist and anthropologist Mark Turin’s impressive 996-page study of the Thangmi language (in 2 volumes) is now out, in Brill’s “Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region”...
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Conférences « Aspects du Népal contemporain »
Dans le cadre de l’évènement « Alliances en résonances : le Népal à Paris » Journée de Conférences ouvertes à tous INALCO/Alliance Française : « Aspects du Népal contemporain » Pôle des Langues et...
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Incompleteness in Yi writings
China officially numbers fifty-five “minority nationalities” (shaoshu minzu 少数民族)—an expression often inappropriately translated as “national minorities” and wrongly regarded as “ethnic groups”. One of...
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Doctoral students workshop in Tibetan studies
The French Society for Tibetan Studies (Société Française d’Études du Monde Tibétain / SFEMT, founded in 2012) is pleased to announce its first Doctoral students workshop in Tibetan studies (organized...
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Conference: Nepal & the Himalaya
organised by Social Science Baha, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council & Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth Annual Kathmandu...
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Workshop: minority languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere
Please note the following international workshop, to be held at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala University, on November 3-4, 2014, and organized by Gerald Roche (currently post-doctoral fellow at...
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Workshop Report: Minority Languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere
Brief Report on the Workshop on Minority Languages of the Chinese Tibetosphere by Gerald Roche (post-doctoral fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, and convenor of the workshop) On the 3rd and 4th of...
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Mapping the Monguor
From the editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives (G. Roche and C.K. Stuart): The editors of Asian Highlands Perspectives are pleased to announce the publication of our latest volume (#36), titled...
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A network of researchers for Nepal
Following the terrible earthquake that hit Nepal in April and May of this year, a large number of researchers, academics and students based in French institutions and specializing in the study of...
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New Book: Tone in Yongning Na, by Alexis Michaud: Open-access and the value...
Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology, by Alexis Michaud. Language Science Press, 2017. (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 13) My main motivation for writing about Michaud’s study on...
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