About CFEL

Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan is nodal Centre for theoretical foundation established by UGC, where 8 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 to undertake fieldwork, research, analysis, archiving and documentation of smaller indigenous/endangered languages, using stat-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, grammars, grammatical sketches, dictionaries and lexicon, ethno-linguistic and theoretical descriptions, collection of oral and folk literature and scholarly book on endangered languages and to make language and dialect atlases with special reference to minority and endangered languages.