Welcome!
I am a linguist currently working at the University of Cambridge and specialising in Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan linguistics, with a particular focus on Tangut, an extinct medieval language of Central Asia.
My work spans historical and comparative linguistics, language documentation and description, linguistic typology, philology and manuscript studies, and corpus and digital linguistics.
For inquiries: mb2810 [at] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk
Latest news
September 2026
Release of The Digital Wenhai: A Unicode-Compliant Dataset of Tangut Linguistics and Philology’s Backbone. Version 1.0: Phonology (Zenodo dataset).
April 2026
Participation in TRICL 7 – 2026.
February 2026
Fieldwork in Rtsangkhog.
December 2025
Publication of “The paths to rhotacization in Tangut, with new evidence from Qiangic” in Evans, Jonathan (ed.), New Discoveries in Tibeto-Burman Linguistics: Honoring the Legacy of Academician Jackson T.-S. Sun.

