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Program

Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

Period of Performance

9/1/2008 - 8/31/2009

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)

Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT)

FAIN: PW-50122-08

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
James A. Matisoff (Project Director: July 2007 to December 2009)

Consultation to develop a long-term sustainability plan for an online etymological dictionary and thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken in China, India, and Southeast Asia.

The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) project at UC Berkeley is a linguistics research project, aimed at the reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the mother language of Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and hundreds of Loloish minority languages of Asia.