Marielle Prins
independent scholar
Marielle Prins, a native of Holland but a long-term resident of Chengdu, is working on the phonology and grammar of Gyelrong dialects, spoken by some 150,000 people in the northwest of Sichuan Province in China. In addition to this, she has examined language standardization perspectives of Amdo Tibetans, conserved classical Gyelrong texts, and conducted numerous word surveys of Gyelrong dialects. Over the last decade, she has worked for various international development NGOs in the Tibetan Amdo and Kham regions.