# OpenSpeaks-Kgg-Gejmehac Gipan-Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda-Uday Raj Aaley-Kusunda language endangerment

In this conversation with Uday Raj Aaley, the late Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda (1937–2020), a Kusunda community elder from Dang, Nepal, discusses the endangerment of her native language, Kusunda. Recorded by Subhashish Panigrahi in 2018 for the production of his 2019 documentary film, Gyani Maiya. Unused or trimmed, archival footage from the film was edited by Panigrahi and published under the Gejmehac Gipan project in 2025. Kusunda and Nepali subtitles are by Aaley, and English translations are by Sanjib Chaudhary and Panigrahi.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: Subhashish Panigrahi
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OpenSpeaks-Kgg-Gejmehac_Gipan-Gyani_Maiya_Sen_Kusunda-Uday_Raj_Aaley-Kusunda_language_endangerment.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Subhashish Panigrahi
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/158032464?play=1)