Language revival in Nepal</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Language revival in Nepal"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Language,revival,in,Nepal"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">04-01-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Language revival in Nepal</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_ypNDTsO3RFtULivP1eye_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Kathmandu, Nepal (Gorkhapatra): More than 150 years ago, Brian Hodgson had predicted its total extinction after the lapse of a few generations and Ethnologue in 1990 reported that Kusunda had gone extinct with the death of its last speaker Chudamani Ban Raja in 1985. It has saddened linguists and language lovers who had regarded a language as the invaluable treasure of distinct culture, knowledge and wisdom but thanks to the effort of linguists at home and abroad as well as of the National Foundation for the Development of Indigenous Nationalities, the Kusunda speakers were traced, the language was recorded and the language community has been blessed with Kusunda grammar. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=33620 " target="blank">www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=33620 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show