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  • HKU linguist’s project on preserving an endangered language

    HKU linguist’s project on preserving an endangered language

    Dr Cathryn Donohue, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Arts, has been working to preserve an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, Nubri, which has been described as ‘vulnerable’ or ‘definitely endangered’ by UNESCO. She has been working on the documentation of Nubri with the local community for the past few years and hopes to contribute to the preservation of this language. She also investigated possible maintenance efforts and in order to introduce a writing system to allow Nubri to be written and used in more domains, she facilitated a gathering of the Nubri people by organising eye clinics and have resulted in nearly 500 villagers in the remote Nubri Valley in Nepal receiving eye treatment and more than 50 villagers regaining sight through cataract surgery. By restoring vision for many in this community, the project created an opportunity for the community gathering to discuss orthographic options, and to record some of Nubri’s traditional medicinal practices. It also has a longer-term impact by contributing to the documentation of Nubri language and culture, and hopefully to the preservation of the language through the introduction of a community-endorsed writing system.

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  • HKU scholar receives 2018 Top Ten Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Award for developing bilingual news glossary App “Newssary”

    HKU scholar receives 2018 Top Ten Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Award for developing bilingual news glossary App “Newssary”

    “Newssary”, a free Chinese-English news glossary App developed by Dr Eva Ng of the HKU Faculty of Arts has been named one of the 2018 Top Ten Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps in the “2018 Healthy Mobile Phone / Tablet Apps Contest” organised by the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration (OFNAA) of the HKSAR government. “Newssary” builds on the extensive bilingual news and current affairs glossary of nearly 9,000 entries created by Dr Ng and her team as a central feature of her website “Resources for Interpreting”.  The glossary also includes buzzwords and slang. 

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