Collaborators
Hideo Sawada, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
I conduct descriptive studies on Burmish minority languages such as Lhaovo, spoken by some Kachin tribes in northern Myanmar. I am also interested in the development of Indic scripts which were originally borrowed and came to be used by ethnic groups in Southeast Asia to notate their own languages.
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Atsuhiko Kato, Keio University, Japan
Kato received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Tokyo in 2005. He joined the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University as a tenured Professor at the beginning of April 2017 and presently teaches classes related to linguistics. Before joining Keio University he was Professor of Burmese at Osaka University (April 2001-March 2017). There he taught the Burmese language and Southeast Asian linguistics. He was Head of the Department of Burmese during academic years 2007 to 2014. He has worked at National Museum of Ethnology, Japan as a tenured Research Fellow (August 1996-March 2001). During his career at Osaka University, he has taught the courses of Karen language (both Sgaw Karen and Pwo Karen) and also taught fieldwork methods classes treating Burmese dialects (Danu and Myeik [Beik, Mergui]). His research focuses on descriptive and historical studies of Karenic languages, especially Pwo Karen, and Burmese grammar.
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Keita Kurabe, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
My research interest lies in the area of Tibeto-Burman languages, with special focus on minority languages spoken in northern Myanmar. I have
been working on languages spoken by the Kachin people in northern Myanmar based on intensive fieldwork. I have also been engaged in documentation, maintenance, and revitalization of the rapidly vanishing oral heritage of the Kachin based on more than ten years’ fieldwork with collaborations and partnerships with the local community. Our efforts resulted in more than 2,400 oral recordings (ca. 213 hours), 1,805 of which are available online at PARADISEC, a digital archive of materials from endangered cultures from all over the world.
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Kosei Otsuka, Osaka University, Japan
Research interests: Tibeto-Burman languages, Linguistics
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