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A summary of the international conference on “Origins and Migrations Among Tibeto-Burman Speakers of the Extended Eastern Himalaya”

-by Rebecca Gnuechtel From the 23rd to the 25th May 2008 some 30 scholars gathered in Berlin, Germany for an international conference on “Origins and Migrations Among Tibeto-Burman Speakers of the Extended Eastern Himalaya”, which was organized by Prof. Toni Huber of the Humboldt University, Institute for Asian and African Studies and Prof. Stuart Blackburn of Read more ...
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High Resolution Image of Along, Arunachal Pradesh in Google Earth!

No, I’m not kidding. Indeed, Google Earth has finally uploaded high resolution satellite imagery of Along Township (See the snapshots below), which I guess, is the first time that Google Earth has done for any township of Arunachal Pradesh. Earlier, all that can be seen of any township of Arunachal Pradesh in Google Earth was just Read more ...
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Solung Greetings

Wish you all a very ‘Happy Solung’
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www.ttt-ao.org

When Tagh pointed me this Galo clan site, I couldn’t resist myself from visiting the site, after all, this was the second community site that I was pointed to after Nyishi.org- a Nyishi community site. The first impression was, hey this is better designed site than the Nyishi.org but as I Read more ...
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Can Tani Language become a lingua franca of Tani Group?

But what is Tani Language? Do we really have a language called Tani Language? Is it the language spoken by the Apatani’s or the Nyishi’s or the Adi’s or any other tribe of Tani group? But then, don’t their languages differ not to be quite intelligible enough amongst themselves? So, when Tani Federation Forum (TTF) Read more ...
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Should we bother?

Instead of directly replying to the comment by Buru on my post on Final Settlement of Boundary Dispute!, I thought of making it a full post. So here it is: I don’t deny that we the North-Easterner has always been part of prejudice whenever we are in other parts of the Read more ...
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