Indian Multilingualism: Policy & Practices
12-13 September 2024
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Welcome
Welcome
It gives us immense pleasure to invite you to participate in the National Seminar on Indian Multilingualism: Policy & Practices to be held during 12-13 September 2024 at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, W.B., organized by Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
Prof. Binoy Kumar Saren
Prof. Binoy Kumar Saren
Vice Chancellor (officiating), Visva-Bharati
Patron
Prof. Manoranjan Pradhan
Prof. Manoranjan Pradhan
Chairperson, Centre for Endangered Languages
Organizer
Arimardan Kumar Tripathi
Arimardan Kumar Tripathi
Centre for Endangered Languages
Coordinator
About the Centre
About the Centre
Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, is a nodal Centre for the theoretical foundation established by UGC, where eight other CFELs have been established in various central universities in the Country. CFEL, V.B. has focused on inter-departmental and interdisciplinary research related to endangered languages and undertakes fieldwork, research, analysis, archiving, and documentation of smaller indigenous/endangered languages, using state-of-the-art speech and language technologies in formats that are universally acceptable viz. digital textual, audio and video formats. CFEL is working on producing and publishing monographs, grammar, grammatical sketches, dictionaries and lexicons, ethnolinguistic and theoretical descriptions, a collection of oral and folk literature, and scholarly books on endangered languages.
About the University
About the University
The university was founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1921. In May 1951, Visva-Bharati was declared a Central University and "An Institution of National Importance" by an Act of Parliament. It was granted the status of a unitary, teaching, and residential university.
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