Welcome to Living Tongues, Mark Donohue!

We are pleased to announce that world-renowned linguist Mark Donohue is our new Senior Director for language documentation projects in the Asia-Pacific Region.

He has worked on the languages of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (both Austronesian and Papuan) for the last 25 years. More recently, he has documented languages of the Himalayas in Nepal and Bhutan.

His work employs the gamut of investigative techniques, from primary work with informants to naturalistic corpora, through to computational analyses of secondary datasets. He has written about questions in the phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax of the languages.

Welcome to the Living Tongues team, Mark! We are thrilled to have you working with us.

Mark and Lhakpa Norbu, a western Nubri speaker from Sama, working together at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.
Mark Donohue and Tsiring Chünzom, a speaker of the Kuke language of western Nepal. She also speaks eastern Nubri, Ghale, and limited Nepali.

Learn more about Mark Donohue here.

View his bibliography here.