For the first time at an American university, a course devoted entirely to the Tuvan language has been conducted. David Harrison, who is assistant professor at the Linguistics Department & Cognitive Science Program of Swarthmore College, USA and post-doctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany taught the seminar past semester at Swarthmore College and had 13 students enrolled.
Mr. Harrison told Tuva-Online that the course was a success. During seminars group covered the basic structures of Tuvan grammar and also read several literary genres, including songs, aphorisms, riddles, "durgen chugaa" and part of an epic tale "Boktu-Kirish, Bora-Sheelei".
The students have begun to build a Tuvan language web site but due to some
font problems, the work is not over yet.
The course will be taught again next Spring (2006) and will be a regular part of the curriculum at Swarthmore College, located near Philadelphia, PA.
Foundation of this work was provided by support from Tuvan Institute for Humanitarian Researches, which hosted course's author David Harrison during his stay in Tuva in 1998.
Glad to see that the Tuvan language has a sponsoring American educational institution. This should increase interest, and, in turn, improve the language's opportunity for survival.
Hi! I'am from Turkey. I want to learn Tuvan Language. But In my coıuntry, we don't have Tuvan novels and poems. I search the web but I found nothing. I need to find some books of Tuvan literature.
Help me...
Thank you
1) 17.03.2010 - 18.03.2010: Presentation of Tuva (Centre Culturel et Scientifigue de Russie 21, rue du Meridien - 1210, Bruxelles, BELGIUM www.centreculturelrusse.be)
2) 20.03.2010 - 24.03.2010: new! Presentation of Tuva (Lyon, FRANCE )
3) 26.03.2010 - 27.03.2010: new! Presentation of Tuva (Centro Ruso de Cooperacion Internacional Cultural y Cientifica Calle Velazquez, 155, Madrid, 28002, SPAIN www.centroruso.info)
4) 28.03.2010: new! Presentation of Tuva (Barcelona, SPAIN )
5) 01.04.2010: new! Presentation of the new site tosertine.ru (Nine Treasures) with all the historical, cultural natural and other phenomena of Tuva
6) 02.04.2010: new! Presentation of 7-volume Anthology 'Uriankhai. Tyva depter' (author is Sergei Shoigu) with all the rare sources on Tuva for the last 200 years
7) 11.04.2010: new! All-republican referendum on the changes into the Tuvan Constitution
8) 15.04.2010: new! Finish of the benefeciary fund-raising action in favour of the suburgan, devoted to the 80th anniversary of the Tuvan written language
9) 01.05.2010: new! May Day
10) 09.05.2010: new! Victory Day, devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory in II World War. Opening of the new memorial to the people from Tuva who took part in II World War
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