Loomis: Himalayan Sherpa Collection: Lakpa Norbu 1, Loss of Language

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Description: Lakpa Norbu Sherpa discusses some of the differences in Sherpa dialect; how an increasing number of Sherpa are only speaking and learning Nepali; how his children’s inability to speak Sherpa makes him feel.
 
Created: 2012-05-18 14:38
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: World Oral Literature Project
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: sherpa; everest; trekking; yak; herding;
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Actor:  Lakpa Norbu Sherpa
Director:  Molly Loomis
 
Abstract: These recordings were made on a trek in the spring of 2011 up to Mount Everest Base Camp. The recordings span a wide variety of topics from making and drinking chang to the work of Mount Everest's 'ice fall doctors'.
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