Chepang
A Trans-Himalayan language spoken in Nepal
The Chepang Language Documentation and Description Project (CLDDP)
is carried out by Marie-Caroline Pons, PhD in linguistics (University of Oregon), and Chepang community members of Rapti, Raksirang and Manahari in the districts of Chitwan and Makawanpur. The two main project managers are Pabitra Chepang and Santosh Praja. Our efforts focus on the preservation of the Chepang language and oral literature, along with the anthropological, ethnological and historical knowledge they carry.
This website intends to make Chepang oral literature accessible to Chepang community members and the broader public.
The recordings were collected, transcribed and translated between 2017 and 2023.
It also includes recordings collected between 1969 and 1999 in Raksirang rural municipality by Ross Caughley.
To know more about the Chepang language, please feel free to download:
work in progress
digital corpus (40 hours+) of oral literature & conversations ~ community access ~ orthography development (devanāgarī & roman) ~ grammar ~
trilingual online dictionary (Chepang, Nepali, English)
with Living Dictionaries
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FUNDING
since 2017, the CLDDP research has been funded by the following grants and awards:
2023 Language Legacies, Endangered Language Fund (ELF)
2021 Graduate Student Research Award, Linguistics Department, University of Oregon
2019 Documenting Endangered Languages, National Science Foundation NSF-DEL Dissertation Improvement Grant
2019 Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Research Support Fellowship, University of Oregon
2019 Special “Opps” Travel and Research Award, University of Oregon
2019 College of Art and Science Continuing Student Scholarships and Fellowships, University of Oregon
2018 Global Oregon Graduate Research Award, University of Oregon
2017 Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Small Professional Grant, University of Oregon
in addition to the generosity of private donors - if you would like to contribute to the development of our research project, we will be forever grateful!
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