Published August 29, 2019 | Version v1
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In-situ Kusunda Video Files

  • 1. independent researcher
  • 2. SOAS London

Description

This data set contains 8 video files made of the last two known Kusunda speakers from Nepal, Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda and Kamala Khatri (Sen Kusunda), in February and April 2019, in Kulmore, Dang Deokhuri, Nepal.

The recordings constitute discussion between the participants, showing how to use flint, how to make a lean-to, and how to dig for tubers.

This material is made freely available to everyone for informative or scientific purposes as long as the source (this DOI) / the collectors are properly credited. Please note that use of the material for commercial purposes of any kind, which includes conversion into commercial audio-visual media (documentaries etc.), (paid) public screening other than for educational purposes, storage and dissemination through sites that require registration & payment for access, or sites that rely on advertisement (including YouTube) is not permitted without specific written consent from the speakers and their community, obtained through the collectors of the material. By downloading our material, you agree to these restrictions.

This data set falls under the Create Commons Attribution 4.0 International / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit us and license your new creations under the identical terms. License Deed on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Legal Code on https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.

We greatly value feedback, suggestions, advice, analysis etc. based on this material which will help in the description of the Kusunda language, especially any comments and suggestions that will enable the revitalisation of the language, including a standardisation of the phonology and a phonologically consistent but also practical orthography in both देवनागरी Devanāgarī and Roman script.

Uday Raj Aaley: aarambhkhabar (at) gmail (dot) com

Tim Bodt: bodttim (at) gmail (dot) com

Notes

This research was funded by a 2,000 USD grant from the Endangered Language Fund (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/), a 700 euro contribution by the European Research Council Starting Grant 715618 "Computer-Assisted Language Comparison" (http://calc.digling.org), and a total of 2,320 euros raised through crowdfunding at GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-the-kusunda-language-in-nepal). Many thanks to all generous contributors.

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