<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All,<div>In case anyone is in Kathmandu, I'll be giving a talk friday at the Fulbright Commission auditorium in Gyaneshwor neighborhood, Kathmandu about the Raute language. Information below...hope to see a few of you there!</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Jana</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">“<span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Creating an Orthography for Raute and Rawat</span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 20pt; ">”<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Dr. Jana Fortier<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Date - Friday, January 16, 2015<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Time - 3:00 p.m.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Venue - Fulbright Commission Auditorium, Gyaneshwor<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <b>Abstract:<u></u><u></u></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dr. Jana Fortier will be talking about the development of a dictionary and script for two local Himalayan languages spoken by the Raute and Ban Rawat/Ban Raji who live in the Kali and Karnali River basin regions of Nepal and India.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The Raute are nomadic, forest foragers living in western Nepal. Dr. Fortier met them in Jajarkot District and worked with them in 1997 for 4 months while doing post-doctoral research on hunting and gathering societies. The Ban Raji/Ban Rawat are now settled into villages in Kumaun, India. They are slowly assimilating into the local Kumauni rural society. Dr. Fortier did research with the Ban Rawat in 2004-05.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Both communities are enormously important because they’re part of the “1%” of human societies that still practice a hunting/gathering way of life. The Ban Rawat are avid porcupine hunters and the Raute are avid monkey hunters. Both largely subsist on gathering wild forest plants, especially the ever-available wild yams.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The Raute and Ban Rawat speak “endangered languages.”They have small populations and thus low numbers of speakers, less than 4,000 in the entire Raute-Rawat-Raji language group. Their ethnic groups are called Raute and Ban Rawat (or Ban Raji, Raji in India) while the languages are called Raute and Rawat.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">B</span>iography<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dr. Jana Fortier received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She did research with Raute </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">communities in 1997, 2003, and 2004 and has<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "> recently written a dictionary of the Raute language which is forthcoming. Jana currently lectures at the University of California, San Diego.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Jana Fortier<br>Lecturer<br>Dept of Anthropology -0532<br>UCSD<br>La Jolla, CA 92093-0532<br><br><br></div><div>Jana Fortier</div><div><a href="mailto:jxfortier@gmail.com">jxfortier@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="mailto:jfortier@ucsd.edu">jfortier@ucsd.edu</a></div></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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