Himalayan Languages Project

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.

## Contents

* 1 Languages studied
* 2 Himalayan Languages Symposium
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Languages studied

The project has completed comprehensive grammars of the following languages:

* Limbu
* Dumi
* Dzongkha
* Wambule
* Kulung
* Jero

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

* Manchad
* Lohorung
* Thangmi
* Sunwar
* Lhokpu
* Sampang
* Gongduk
* Olekha
* Gyalrong
* Lepcha
* Chulung
* Dhimal

The project has completed grammatical sketches of the following languages:

* Bumthang
* Byangsi
* Puma
* Rabha
* Rongpo

Members of the project are currently working on grammatical sketches of the following languages:

* Baram
* Dura
* Toto

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

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HLS 1 | Leiden |  Netherlands | June 16–17 | 1995
HLS 2 | Noordwijkerhout |  Netherlands | October 11–12 | 1996
HLS 3 | Santa Barbara, California |  United States | July 17–20 | 1997
HLS 4 | Pune |  India | December 7–9 | 1998
HLS 5 | Kathmandu |  Nepal | September 13–15 | 1999
HLS 6 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |  United States | June 15–17 | 2000
HLS 7 | Uppsala |  Sweden | September 7–9 | 2001
HLS 8 | Bern |  Switzerland | September 19–22 | 2002
HLS 9 | Mysore |  India | December 9–12 | 2003
HLS 10 | Thimphu |  Bhutan | December 1–3 | 2004
HLS 11 | Bangkok |  Thailand | December 6–9 | 2005
HLS 12 | Kathmandu |  Nepal | November 26–29 | 2006
HLS 13 | Shimla |  India | October 22–24 | 2007
HLS 14 | Gothenburg |  Sweden | August 21–23 | 2008
HLS 15 | Eugene, Oregon |  United States | July 30–August 1 | 2009
HLS 16 | London |  United Kingdom | September 2–5 | 2010
HLS 17 | Kobe |  Japan | September 6–9 | 2011
HLS 18 | Varanasi |  India | September 10–12 | 2012
HLS 19 | Canberra |  Australia | September 6–8 | 2013
HLS 20 | Singapore |  Singapore | July 16–18 | 2014
HLS 21 | Kirtipur |  Nepal | November 26–28 | 2015
HLS 22 | Guwahati |  India | June 8–10 | 2016
HLS 23 | Tezpur |  India | July 5–7 | 2017
HLS 24 | Lucknow |  India | June 8–10 | 2018
HLS 25 | Sydney |  Australia | June 28–29 | 2019
HLS 26 | Paris |  France | September 4–6 | 2023
HLS 27 | Guwahati |  India | June 12–14 | 2024
HLS 28 | Eugene, Oregon |  United States | August 2–3 | 2025[4]

## See also

* Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
* International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

## References

1. ↑ Himalayan Languages Symposium.
2. ↑ Conferences[Usurped!]. Himalayan Languages Project.
3. ↑ "Conference schedule". 2021-04-14. http://www.himalayansymposium.org/conference-schedule.html.
4. ↑ "Co-located Conferences". https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/co-located-conferences.php.

## External links

* Himalayan Languages Project[Usurped!] official website
* The Kirat Rai Association's web portal

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