Uday Raj Aaley is a language researcher, lexicographer, writer and activist from Nepal. He is known for documenting and revitalising the moribund Kusunda language and teaching it to young children along with Kusunda elders Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda and Kamala Sen-Khatri. In 2019, he and Timotheus Adrianus Bodt raised funds to document audio and video materials in Kusunda and create a list of 250 concepts in Kusunda. Aaley has indicated the lack of prescriptive grammar in Kusunda to generalise and formalise Kusunda in his research findings.
Uday Raj Aaley | |
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 Uday Raj Aaley in 2018 | |
| Nationality | Nepalese |
| Occupation(s) | Language researcher, lexicographer, writer and activist |
| Notable work | Kusunda Jatira Shabdakosh (2017) Gemyehak: King of the Forest (2023)[1] Kusunda Gipan[2] Tharu Brihat Shabd Kosh |
Early life
editUday Raj Aaley was born in western Nepal and is a native Magar language speaker.[3]
Career
editAaley began documenting the Kusunda language in 2010s and published the trilingual (English-Nepali-Kusunda) dictionary Kusunda Jatira Shabdakosh in 2017.[4] He began an education programme together with Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda and Kamala Sen-Khatri in January 2019 for teaching 20 children Kusunda with support from Nepal's Language Commission.[5][1] The bilingual (Nepali-Kusunda) education resources created in this programme were the first materials in Kusunda.[5] In 2019, he and Timotheus Adrianus Bodt raised US$5,000 from a grant from Endangered Language Fund and a crowd-funding campaign on GoFundMe to document audio and video materials in Kusunda and create a list of 250 concepts in Kusunda.[6] He collaborated with Nepalese-American not-for-profit Archive Nepal and received a grant from the British Library in 2023 to develop courses to teach Kusunda online and to higher secondary students through bilingual Nepali-Kusunda books.[7]
Bibliography
edit- Kusunda Jatira Shabdakosh (2017)
- Gemyehak: King of the Forest (2023)
- Kusunda Gipan[2]
- Tharu Brihat Shabd Kosh
References
edit- ^ a b Chaudhary, Sanjib (2023-04-03). "What does it take to revitalize a dying language?". Global Voices. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ a b "कुसुन्डा भाषाको पुस्तान्तरण प्रयास". GorakhaPatra (in Nepali). Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Centre for Cultural-Linguistic Diversity | TRICL 3". Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Book that traces Kusunda tribe's history hits shelves". kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ a b Aaley, Uday Raj; Bodt, Tim (2020-02-01). "Meet the Professionals: Uday Raj Aaley: Language teacher". Babel, The Language Magazine 30: 44-45. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Aaley, Uday Raj; Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (September 6, 2019). "All Kusunda Audio and Video Files Metadata". doi:10.5281/zenodo.3401526. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ "Safeguarding the Kusunda (The Ban Rajas) Language and Culture for Future Generations". British Council: Cultural Protection Fund. 2023.
External links
edit- Aaley, Uday Raj (2021). Kusunda Gipan कुसुन्डा गिपन [Kusunda Language] (PDF) (in Nepali) (1st ed.). Kathmandu: Language Commission (Nepal).
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