Handbook on Endangered South Asian and Southeast Asian Languages (eng)

The handbook delves into the linguistic features of Southeast Asian and South Asian endangered languages, providing detailed descriptions and analyses. Each chapter covers a range of topics, including linguistic properties, extralinguistic aspects, and issues related to preserving and promoting endangered languages. The book also includes an ethnolinguistic profile for each language, discussing its official status, state of endangerment, demography, and usage. It discusses the methodological issues related to collecting and analyzing linguistic data. Furthermore, the book describes the unique linguistic features of each language, covering phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, and other linguistic aspects. By doing so, the book highlights how new linguistic features and findings can reflect on the community. Given the context of UNESCO's declaration of the 'International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032', this book offers valuable insights for students, researchers, policymakers, government agencies, educators, and linguists. It is an informative volume for scholars working on various endangered languages worldwide.

Niladri Sekhar Dash is a Professor and Head of the Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Since 1992, he has been working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology, Language Documentation and Digitization, Digital Lexicography, Computer Assisted Language Teaching, Digital Humanities and Ethnography, and Dementia of Bilingual Aphasic and Alzheimer's patients. Prof. Dash was an International Visiting Fellow of the British Academy, UK (2018) and a Visiting Scholar of the Language and Brain Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK (2019). Since 2018, he is acting as a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK (2018-2024). In 2022, he was invited as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Education (IoE), University College London (UCL), UK. He has acted as the Principal Investigator for more than 20 research–based projects funded by the Govt. of India, international funding agencies, and corporate houses. To his credit, Prof. Dash has published 18 research books, 4 edited anthologies and 300+ research papers in international and national journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings. He has delivered academic lectures and taught courses in more than 100 universities and institutions in India and abroad.

S. Arulmozi is a Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad in 1999. Before joining the current position, he worked at Dravidian University, Kuppam where he carried out mission projects on Telugu WordNet and Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Telugu), funded by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India. His areas of research include Corpus Studies, Language Endangerment Studies, and Sociolinguistics. To his credit he has published 3 edited volumes, more than 50+ research papers in journals, anthologies and conference proceedings.

 N. Ramesh is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India in 1997. Before joining the current position, he worked at Bharathiar University where he carried out projects related to documentation and digitization of tribal languages and cultures of the Nilgiri regions. His areas of research include Tribal linguistics, Language Endangerment, and Language Documentation. To his credit he has published several research papers in journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings.