Himalayan Linguistics is a refereed web journal and archive of grammars, dictionaries, and text collections specializing in the languages of the Himalayan region. The editorial board is global, with scholars from institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The term "Himalayan" is used in its broad sense to include north-western and north-eastern India, where languages of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic linguistic stocks are spoken; the languages of Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau; the languages of northern Burma and Sichuan; and the languages of Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski speaking area in the west.

Online access to Himalayan Linguistics is be free; there is no subscription fee. The primary reason for this — and, indeed, for using the web journal as opposed to the printed paper format — is to make the information contained in the journal accessible to scholars in developing countries, in particular the countries of the Himalayan region. Web access is steadily increasing in these areas, and this technology allows fast and affordable access to current research. Scholars from the Himalayan region will not only be able to access Himalayan Linguistics, but will also be active contributors to it.

Each article and archived document published by Himalayan Linguistics constitutes a separate issue. Issues are numbered sequentially. There are two numbering systems, one for journal articles and the other for archived grammars, dictionaries, and text collections. Journal articles are numbered beginning Himalayan Linguistics: Journal No. 1; archived documents are numbered beginning Himalayan Linguistics Archive No. 1. This mode of numbering also serves as the mode of citation. Each issue of the journal and archive are uploaded to the website as soon as the final version has been accepted for publication. Issues of both the journal and the archive therefore appear with variable frequency.

Himalayan Linguistics is published by the General Editor, Professor Carol Genetti of the University of California, Santa Barbara, together with the Associate Editors, Professors Michael Noonan of the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin and Dr. David Waters of SIL International, and the Review Editor, Professor Anju Saxena of Uppsala University.

Each issue of Himalayan Linguistics is protected under copyright, with copyright held jointly by the editors.

Financial support for Himalayan Linguistics has been provided by the College of Letters and Science, the Graduate School, and the Department of Linguistics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thanks also to the University of California, Santa Barbara/Letters & Science Information Technology for providing the webspace for the journal.

For further information, please visit the Himalayan Linguistics.