Kusunda Audio and Video Files Day 3 31072019 - Part 1

<p>This data set contains 8 audio files in this first part and 44 video files (21 files in this first part and 23 files in the second part, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3384958) of the interviews held with the last two known Kusunda speakers from Nepal, Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda and Kamala Khatri (Sen Kusunda), on July 31^st,&nbsp;2019, in Kathmandu, Nepal.</p> <p>As per our knowledge, these are&nbsp;the first recordings of Kusunda that are available in the public domain. The recordings constitute&nbsp;mainly of word list elicitation files with Kamala (also in the second part, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3384958), but&nbsp;there is also Gyani Maiya&rsquo;s story of how they used to live in the forest (till she was 19 years old - in part 2, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3384958). Also, there are the cut sound files, triple repeated of Kamala&#39;s word list and the word list as a pdf file in this first part.</p> <p>The metadata of speakers and recordings can be found in the pdf file.</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; (<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 <strong><em>of any kind</em></strong><em>, which includes conversion into commercial audio-visual media (documentaries etc.), (paid) public screening other than for educational purposes, 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 Create Commons Attribution 4.0 International / 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>