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Tibetan Prayer Flags
Tibetan Prayer Flags

Welcome to our project

Our names are William Gore and Tenzing Dolma and this project is a designated module designed for the Intro to East Asian Civilization: Tibet course with Dr. Lauran Hartley at Columbia University. We are both students in the EALAC, East Asian Languages and Cultures program. William is an undergraduate focusing on linguistics and Tibetan Studies, and Tenzing is a Masters student focusing on the Nechung Oracle. 

Our goal for this project was to understand the complex dynamics of language use in Himalayan diaspora communities in the United States, with a focus on the Sherpa language as well as varieties of Tibetan. Through data obtained on generational speakers, we sough to understand the variations and differences that could occur over time. Our project additionally cites sources of linguistic theory and Tibetic language etymology. 

William Gore

William Gore

ཝིལ་ཡམ་གྷོར

Tenzing Dolma

Tenzing Dolma

བསྟན་འཛིན་སྒྲོལ་མ

William is a junior in Columbia College studying Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His primary focus is Tibetan Studies, and he is particularly interested in sociolinguistic patterns of language use in New York City within the Himalayan diaspora. He has also conducted research on definiteness marking in Maninka, a Manding language spoken in West Africa. This module has allowed him to further explore his research interests related to Tibetic languages, and he hopes that this project is the beginning of a larger-scale exploration of the sociolinguistic questions it raises.

Tenzing is a first-year Masters's student in the East Asian Languages and Cultures program. With a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience & Psychology as well as Anthropology, Tenzing's interests vary widely across multiple fields. For this module, her background as a Native Sherpa speaker and first-generation Sherpa American served as the guiding role for her work in the sociolinguistic analysis of Tibetic-languages. In addition to her background, she also enjoys building research projects and data acquisition from her work in various labs at Loyola Chicago and the University of Chicago. 

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