[Nepal] 5th Himalayan Language Symposium

["Irfan Khan" <KhanIA@super.net.pk>]

Date sent:      	Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:50:17 +0500

[the following posting was not accepted by the majordomo as it 
thought that it was from a non-member. it is a pity that the 
majordomo could not tell that Sangeeta Pandey is an ex-member :)  

on the symposium: i wonder if there are papers on linguistics and IT,
localization, natural language processing, and speech synthesis. 
irfan]



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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:28:16 +0530
From: Sangeeta Pandey <sangeeta@icimod.org.np>
Organization: ICIMOD
Subject: 5th Himalayan Language Symposium


5th Himalayan Language Symposium
13-15 September, 1999, Kathmandu, Nepal

The Himalayan Language Symposium is an open international forum where
scholars exchange the results of their research with others working on
related issues in the same geographical area.

The symposium for 1999 will be held in Nepal from 13 to 15 September. 
The event will be jointly sponsored by the Central Department of 
Linguistics, Tribhuvan University; the Royal Nepal Academy; and the 
Linguistic Society of Nepal. Over 160 scholars in various countries 
have been invited to submit papers for the symposium, which will 
cover topics such as    

   * Descriptions of previously undescribed languages
   * Historical and comparative studies
   * Himalayan languages in theoretical and typological perspective
   * Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
   * Language planning
   * The prehistory of Himalayan language communities

For further details, please contact

Prof. Tej R. Kansakar, Ph.D.
Chairman, Organizing Committee
5th Himalayan Languages Symposium
P.O.Box 7045, Kathmandu, Nepal.
E-mail: tejk@vishnu.ccsl.com.np
Fax: 977-1-226964