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 the Na language doesn’t have...
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 Nepalese societies...
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 Mapping the Monguor. Nearly ten years in...
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...
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 the Hugo Valentin Centre):...
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 Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 22-24 July,...
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 with support from the...
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 these is the “Yi nationality” (Yizu 彝族), ranked first among...
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...
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” series: Turin, M., 2012, A...
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