[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Talk on Raute language Friday Jan 16 at Fulbright House, Kathmandu

[Jana Fortier]

Hi All,
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!

Best wishes,
Jana

“Creating an Orthography for Raute and Rawat”

 

Dr. Jana Fortier

 

 

Date      - Friday, January 16, 2015

 

Time      - 3:00 p.m.

 

Venue    - Fulbright Commission Auditorium, Gyaneshwor

 

 

 Abstract:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Biography:

 

Dr. Jana Fortier received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She did research with Raute communities in 1997, 2003, and 2004 and has recently written a dictionary of the Raute language which is forthcoming. Jana currently lectures at the University of California, San Diego.



Jana Fortier
Lecturer
Dept of Anthropology -0532
UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532


Jana Fortier
jxfortier at gmail.com
jfortier at ucsd.edu



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