Kusunda - Raw sound files

<p>This data set contains the raw sound files of the interviews held with the last two Kusunda speakers from Nepal, Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda and Kamala Khatri (Sen Kusunda), late July and early August 2019, in Kathmandu Nepal.</p> <p>There are a total of 79 files recorded with a Tascam handheld audio recorder, with a total length of 20 hours 40 minutes. There is elicitation&nbsp;of word lists and verbal paradigms; conversation between the two speakers; personal narratives; an origin story; retold stories from picture books; and comments on earlier video and audio recordings.</p> <p>The processed&nbsp;sound files and the associated video files and other information will be uploaded here in Zenodo in due course of time.</p> <p>This research was funded by a 2,000 USD grant from&nbsp;the Endangered Language Fund (<a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/">http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/</a>), a 700 euro contribution by the European Research Council Starting Grant 715618 &ldquo;Computer-Assisted Language Comparison&rdquo; (&nbsp;<a href="http://calc.digling.org/">http://calc.digling.org</a>), and a total of 2,320 euros raised through crowdfunding at GoFundMe (<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-the-kusunda-language-in-nepal">https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-the-kusunda-language-in-nepal</a>). Many thanks to all generous contributors.</p> <p>This material is made freely available to everyone for informative or scientific purposes as long as the source (this DOI) / the collectors are properly credited. Please note that use of the material for&nbsp;commercial purposes <em><strong>of any kind</strong>, which includes conversion into commercial audio-visual media (documentaries etc.), storage and dissemination through sites that require registration &amp; payment for access, or sites that rely on advertisement (including YouTube)&nbsp;</em>is <strong>not</strong> permitted without <strong>specific written consent</strong> from the speakers and their community, obtained through the collectors of the material. By downloading our material, you agree to these restrictions.</p> <p>This data set falls under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit us and license your new creations under the identical terms. License Deed on&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a>. Legal Code on&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode</a>.</p> <p>We&nbsp;greatly value feedback, suggestions, advice, analysis etc. based on this material which will help in the description of the Kusunda language, especially any comments and suggestions that will enable the revitalisation of the language, including a standardisation of the phonology and a phonologically consistent but also practical orthography in both देवनागरी Devanāgarī&nbsp;and Roman script.</p> <p>Uday Raj Aaley: aarambhkhabar (at) gmail (dot) com</p> <p>Tim Bodt: bodttim&nbsp;(at) gmail (dot) com</p>