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Himalayan Languages Project

The Himalayan Languages Project, headquartered in Bern, has since 1983 represented the largest sustained language documentation effort in the greater Himalayan region. Members of the multi-national research team consist of both students and young linguists working towards their Ph.D. at Bern University as well as post-doc and senior researchers. More...

The Origins of Language and Language Evolution

Symbiosism is a Darwinian theory of the emergence and continuing evolution of human language and language-borne ideas. Meanings are understood to be self-reproducing neurological entities with the mathematical properties of non-constructible sets that are subject to natural selection. More...

Languages and Genes of the Greater Himalayan Region

Since 2001, the Himalayan Languages Project has been collaborating with geneticists and scholars from other disciplines in both East and West on reconstructing Asian population prehistory. More...