Kurmali Sketch Grammar

Toto Sketch Grammar

Koda Sketch Grammar

Indigenous and Endangered Languages Archive of UGC-SRIELI (IELA)

includes

Word List, Sentence List, Ethno-Linguistics, Dictionary, Grammar, Vitality

1. Conducted "One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation" on 2nd August 2018, jointly by Dr. Bornini Lahiri, Dr. Arup Majumder and Nivedita Mitra at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University.

2. Conducted a half day workshop on "Documentating Lesser- known Languages through Tools and Textbooks" in 11th Students Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI 11) on 29th January 2017, jointly by Dr. Bornini Lahiri, Dr. Arup Majumder and Dr. Dripta Piplai at the School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University. 

1. Minority Languages in Workshop on Technology for Language and Community, (2018) at Microsoft Research Labs, India. By Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

2. Data Collection and Analysis in Linguistics at 3rd National Workshop on Language Description and Sciences (WORLDS – 3) (2017). Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. By Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

1. Language and culture: A Linguistic Anthropological Study of Kurmali, Paper is selected for publication and presentation in 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, CIIL, Mysuru, December 2018. It will be presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

2. Effect of Bangla on Koda verbs, Paper selected for publication and presentation in 40th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, CIIL, Mysuru, December 2018. It will be presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

3. Questionnaire for Language Documentation, presented at A Two-day Workshop on Documenting Lesser Known Linguistic communities, and Building Linguistic Resources organized by National Law University at Delhi on 18-19th September, 2018. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

4. Informants Selection Procedure, field Ethics, Preparing Dictionary and Linguistic Analysis of the Collected Data, presented at A Two-day Workshop on Documenting Lesser Known Linguistic communities, and Building Linguistic Resources organized by National Law University at Delhi on 18-19th September, 2018. Presented by Nivedita Mitra.

5. Linguistic Anthropological Aspects of Language Study, presented at A Two-day Workshop on Documenting Lesser Known Linguistic communities, and Building Linguistic Resources organized by National Law University at Delhi on 18-19th September, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

6. Language and culture: A Linguistic Anthropological Study of Koda, National Seminar on Debating Indian Aspirational Languages: DIAL-2018, organised by Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, W.B on 9th to 11th September, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

7. Toto Phonemic Inventory: A Brief Overview, National Seminar on Debating Indian Aspirational Languages: DIAL-2018 during 9-11 Sep, 2018. Co-authored by Nivedita Mitra and Dr. Atanu Saha. Presented by Nivedita Mitra. 

8. Presence of Minor languages of West Bengal in Social Media, Presented in National Seminar on Debating Indian Aspirational Languages: DIAL-2018 during 9-11 Sep, 2018. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

9. Health of Indigenous People of West Bengal: Special References to Toto, Two day International Seminar on Recent Trends in Science Towards Sustainable Development, Organised by Acharya Prafulla Chandra College in collaboration with Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, W.B on 6th and 7th August, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

10. Importance of Metadata and Ways to collect it, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Samhati Soor.

11. Selection of Linguistic Field, Data Collection and Field Management, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

12. Informant Selection Procedure & Field Ethics, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Nivedita Mitra.

13. Methods of Collecting Linguistic Data: Questionnaire Designing and Video Making, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

14. Application of GIS for Language Study, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Rahul Basu.

15. Consequences of Socio-Economic variables in Language shift in a village of West Bengal: An Anthropo-Linguistic view of Koda, Presented at National Seminar on Tribal Culture in West Bengal, organised by Cultural Research Institute, Tribal Development Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata on 28th and 29th June, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

16. Kinship Terms and Terminology of Koda: An Anthropo-Linguistic Observation, Presented at 46th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) & International Symposium organised in Jadavpur University, Kolkata in collaboration with School of Languages and Linguistics and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 21st to 23rd June 2018.  Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

17. Contact-induced changes in some Minor Languages of West Bengal, Presented at 46th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (46 AICDL) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, June 2018. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

18. Automatic Identification of closely related Indian Languages: Resources and Experiments, Presented at 4th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE4) conducted under 11th LREC at Miyazaki, Japan. May 2018. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

19. Anthropo-Linguistic Methods: Its Application & Outputs, Presented at A Two day National Seminar cum Workshop on Broadening the horizon of the Current Research on Endangered and Indigenous Languages of India, Organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, under the project grand in Study and Research in Indigenous and endangered languages during XII plan, Sponsored by UGC from 16th & 17th March, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

20. Role of Socio- economic Variables in Language Shift with Special Reference to Kurmali and Toto Communities of West Bengal, Presented at 6th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser- known Languages (ELKL-6) organised by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 21- 23 February, 2018 with Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder and Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal.

21. An Anthropo-Linguistic Study on Kinship Terms of Kurmali, Presented at 6th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser- known Languages (ELKL-6) organised by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 21- 23 February, 2018 with Dr. Bornini Lahiri. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder and Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

22. A Linguistic Anthropological Study on Clan Formation of Toto of Totopara in West Bengal, Presented at 47th Annual Conference of The Indian Anthropological Society, “ National Seminar on Tribal Situation in India: Contemporary Issues and Concerns”, Jointly organised by Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, The Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata, Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur on 29-31 January, 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

23. An Anthropo-Linguistic Study on the Clan Formation of the Kurmali Community of West Bengal, Presented at 39th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna, in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and Linguistic Society of India on December 08-11, 2017. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

24. Kurmali: A mixed language, Presented during the 39th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI – 39) IIT-Patna. December 2017. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri and Dr. Atanu Saha.

25. Demographic Profile of Totopara, West Bengal, Presented at 2nd Regional Science and Technology Congress (Western Region)- 2017, Organised by University of Burdwan on 16-17, November, 2017. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

26. Role of Socio-Economic Variables in Language Shift: A linguistic Anthropological Approach From Totopara, West Bengal, Presented at National Seminar on “Environment, Sustainable Development and Future Perspective in Northeast India: Emic and Ethic Dynamics” organised by Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 2nd and 3rd October, 2017. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

27. Revitalization pays in various ways, Presented at International Conference on Communities in Control: Learning tools and strategies for multilingual endangered language communities (CinC 2017) Alcanena (Portugal). October 2017. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

28. A comparative study of the Anaphors in Toto Meiteilon and Nyishi, Presented at 33rd SALA conference organized by the Dept of Oriental studies, The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland held on 15-17 May 2017. Presented by Dr. Atanu Saha.

29. E-Archiving: An Overview, resented at One day Seminar-cum Workshop, “Field Survey, Language Archiving & The Study of Endangered Languages” under the UGC funded SRIELI-SLL-JU project, organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, on 30th March, 2017. Presented by Samhati Soor.

30. Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology & its Methods, Presented at One day Seminar-cum Workshop, “Field Survey, Language Archiving & The Study of Endangered Languages” under the UGC funded SRIELI-SLL-JU project, organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, on 30th March, 2017. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

31. Kurmis and Their Language: An ethno-linguistic Perspective, Presented at One day Seminar-cum Workshop, “Field Survey, Language Archiving & The Study of Endangered Languages” under the UGC funded SRIELI- SLL-JU project, organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, on 30th March, 2017. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

32. Kurmali: A Field Experience Field Survey, In Language Archiving and the Study of Endangered Languages, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. March 2017. Presented by Dr. Bornini Lahiri.

33. Anaphors in Toto, Presented at International Conference on Endangered and Lesser Known Languages held on 24-26 February 2017 organized by Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language & Literature, Central University of Jharkhand. Presented by Dr. Atanu Saha.

1. International Short Term Course on Open Source Software for Library Management (OSSLM-2018) organised by Central Library and National Digital Library India (NDLI), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India from 7th May, 2018 to 12th May, 2018. Participation: Samhati Soor.

2. A two day National seminar cum workshop on Broadening the horizon of current research on Endangered and Indigenous Languages in India organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India under UGC-SRIELI Project from 16th March, 2018 to 17th March, 2018. Participation: Samhati Soor.

3. 5-Day Workshop on Language Documentation and Revitalization organised by Central Institute of Languages, Mysuru from 26th February, 2018 to 2nd March, 2018. Participation: Dr. Arup Majumder, Dr. Bornini Lahiri and Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal.

4. Two Day National Level Workshop on “Phonology and Dspace Technology” organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India under UGC-SRIELI Project from 9th February, 2018 to 10th February, 2018. Participation: Dr. Arup Majumder, Dr. Bornini Lahiri, Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal and Samhati Soor.

5. Three days National Level Workshop on Second/ Foreign Language Acquisition and Research organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University from 20th December, 2017to 22nd December, 2017. Participation: Dr. Arup Majumder, Dr. Bornini Lahiri and Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal.