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Uday Raj Aaley is a language researcher, writer and activist from Nepal. He is known for documenting 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. In his research, Aaley has indicated the lack of prescriptive grammar in Kusunda to generalise and formalise Kusunda.
Career
Aaley began documenting the Kusunda language in 2010s and published the trilingual (English-Nepali-Kusunda) dictionary Kusunda Jatir Shabdakosh in 2017.[1] He began a 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.[2] The bilingual (Nepali-Kusunda) education resources created in this programme were the first materials in Kusunda.[2] In 2019, he and Timotheus Adrianus Bodt raised USD 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.[3] 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.[4]
References
- ^ "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.