CFEL ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT

CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES TEZPUR UNIVERSITY

MARCH 2017

Glimpses of Northeast

VISION To help the endangered language communities revive and maintain their native languages with a developing sense of loyalty towards them.

MISSION To make the Centre one of the best centres working on endangered languages in the country and worldwide.

To create a database of all such languages with grammatical descriptions and documentation. Message from Vice-Chancellor

Autonomy with Accountability

I am indeed very happy that a Centre for Endangered Languages has now been set up at Tezpur University. I take this opportunity to thank UGC, New Delhi for its resolu- tion to establish such a Centre here at the University and for providing the requisite funds for it. Nearly 220 languages are spoken in , but most of them have hardly been studied. More importantly, many of these languages are now critical- ly endangered, some even are on the verge of becoming extinct in the near future. I, therefore, see the establishment of the Centre as a well-thought-out and timely inter- vention to the situation. As I understand, the UGC has established two more such Centres at Rajiv Gandhi University, , and University, Gangtok, for which the Tezpur University Centre will act the Consortium Leader. The prime goal of these three Centres will be to work towards preservation and promotion of the endangered and lesser known languages of this part of the country.

A language is a unique expression of the way a people view, think of, and understand the world. The loss of any lan- guage is, therefore, an irrevocable loss for all humanity. Yet, according to a recent UNESCO report, out of the approxi- mately 6,000 existing languages in the world more than 2,500 are under threat of imminent extinction. They may be extinct even before the next century begins.

As for the Indian languages, 196 are currently endangered according to the above-mentioned report. On the other hand, most of these languages are rooted in Northeast India. Speakers of many of the languages in Northeast India, which belong to different language families, are rather small in number, ranging from 1000 to 10,000. With the new genera- tions sharply shifting to dominant languages in order to ensure jobs for themselves these languages are now increasingly under the threat of being extinct altogether.

In a world of an ever expanding and consolidating market economy, it is not always easy to fight against the hegemony of the languages of the market; many are, therefore, rather sceptical about the very concept of ‘revitalization of the en- dangered languages’, but there is perhaps no need to be too pessimistic about it. At least this seemingly utopian concept has made the world aware of the immanent yet tragic disappearance of the majority of the languages. I am happy to learn that colleagues at the CFEL of the University have already started working on nine select endangered languages of , , and in close cooperation with the respective communities and that their basic grammatical descriptions are nearing completion. I very much appreciate the hard work they are carrying out by going to remote far- off places to collect data; their sincere efforts to mingle with the communities, which alone can ensure the success of the mission. I am also happy to learn that the Centre has in the meantime established a documentation and a phonetic la- boratory in order that all such languages can be documented and archived. Currently, the Centre is also running an MA programme in Linguistics and Endangered Languages and offering two CBCS courses on language endangerment and related issues, response to which, as I am given to understand to my satisfaction, has been very positive.

Presently the Centre is staffed with three Assistant Professors, three Research Associates, eight Field Assistants, one technical assistant, and two other office staff. The Centre is now annexed to the Dept. of English and Foreign Lan- guages of the University and all the faculty members of Linguistics from this Department are associated with the Centre as monitors, which also include its current Co-ordinator.

The Centre was established under the 12th Plan and the UGC had approved a total of 6 crore for the five-year project. Out of this amount Rs. 3 crore was released in December 2015. I am happy to see that the money has been properly utilized and that an audit of the expenditure has also been carried out.

The challenge that the Centre has taken up is of course enormous. But I am confident that the people at the Centre will be able to meet the challenge with total dedication and hard work; with perceptive insights and of course with true love and an unwavering loyalty to these languages and the communities. I wish the Centre a very bright future.

Date: 02 May 2017 Prof Mihir K. Chaudhury 2 COORDINATOR’S NOTE

The Centre for Endangered Languages of Tezpur University was established in the year 2014 vide letter No F.No.15-6/2012 rd (CU) dated 3 April 2014 from the UGC, New Delhi. Tezpur University along with Rajiv Gandhi University and Sikkim Universi- ty were advised to work in a cluster format, as a Consortium for the purpose of Development of the North-Eastern languages th with Tezpur University as the lead cluster. The Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL) was constituted under the 12 Plan scheme and an amount of 6 crore was recommended for Tezpur University. The task assigned to Tezpur University was to work to cover languages of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. The work had to commence simultaneously. As Lead Cluster, Tezpur University had the added responsibility to conduct two day workshop for preparing a complete work plan for the pur- pose of the scheme.

CFEL, Tezpur University received 3 crore as grants-in-aid under the Scheme of Establishment of Centres of Endangered Lan- th guages in Central Universities during XII Plan for the year 2015-16 vide letter No. F.82-1/2015(CU) dated 27 August 2015 from the UGC, New Delhi.

st nd A two day Seminar cum Administrative Workshop was organized in Tezpur University from 1 to 2 August 2014. The objec- tive of the two day programme was to discuss the action plan of the cluster and the administrative and financial implication of the staff to be appointed by the centres. Prof. U.N. Singh, National Coordinator, CFEL, Prof. K.C. Kapoor VC in charge, Rajiv Gandhi University, Dr. Rachob Tada, Registrar, Rajiv Gandhi University, Prof. Charulata Mahanta, Dean Research and Devel- opment, Tezpur University, Dr. Lakhi Boral, Controller of Examinations, Tezpur University, Dr. Simon John, Coordinator, Rajiv Gandhi University, Dr. Samar Sinha, Coordinator Sikkim University, the faculty of AITS, Rajiv Gandhi University and the linguis- tics faculty of the Department of EFL, Tezpur University participated in the meeting.

nd th th A 2 Regional Workshop of CFEL was conducted from 6 to 8 April 2016. The objective of this three day workshop was twofold: i.e. to develop a complete work plan for conducting field survey, data collection, audio-visual recording and docu- mentary film making. Prof. Udaya Narayan Singh, National Coordinator presided over the workshop. The newly appointed faculty and staff of Rajiv Gandhi University and Tezpur University attended the Workshop. The Coordinators Dr. Simon John and Dr. Samar Sinha were present at the Workshop. The faculty of AITS, Rajiv Gandhi University and the linguistics faculty of the Department of EFL, Tezpur University participated in the meeting. Dr. Biren Das, Registrar, Tezpur University attended the inaugural function. Prof. U.N. Singh spoke on how field survey needs to be conducted and circulated amongst the partici- pants a draft on guidelines and questionnaire to be used as Field Manual for conducting field work.

The CFEL Advisory Committee Meeting was held on 26 July 2016 to take stock of (i) the recruitment of the faculty, research and field staff and office bearers of the Centre and (ii) the work undertaken by the CFEL staff. Prof. Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri, VC, Tezpur University chaired the meeting. Prof. U.N. Singh National Coordinator and external member Advisory Committee, the linguistic faculty and the faculty and staff of the Centre attended the meeting. The Coordinator presented the progress report of the Centre.

In a span of nine months starting June 2016 to March 2017; CFEL, Tezpur University has conducted three field trips. Seven groups comprising faculty, research associate and field assistants have simultaneously started working on seven endangered languages in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. Later, two more endangered languages were included to form a sum total of nine languages being surveyed and documented in a span of nine months. Due to road blockade and bandhs in Manipur, it was difficult for the two groups working in Manipur to travel and continue their data collection process and at times their field work got delayed. On one occasion informants from District had to come to the Centre so that data collection of the groups could take place simultaneously.

Besides documentation, the Centre has two academic programmes: (i) MA in Linguistics and Language Endangerment, and (ii) 6 month Certificate Course in Endangered Languages. The Centre offers two CBCS courses. The Centre plans to offer a PhD programme in the next phase. Publication of the findings of the documented languages is in our priority list. We will bring out books on these languages for revitalization and maintenance.

Dr. Madhumita Barbora Coordinator CFEL HOD, Department of EFL

3 OBJECTIVES  To train the native speakers of endangered/lesser known languages of the North East in linguistic analysis;  To develop text books and other study materials in these languages;  To publish research works on these languages;  To encourage the communities of these languages to extend and expand the use of their languages in maximum number of domains;  To create an archive of all relevant data on these languages;  To collaborate with other Departments or Centres such as Cultural Studies; Sociology in studying these languages.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

The Centre has been conducting  Extensive primary research on 9 endangered/lesser known languages of Assam (Biate, Khelma, Tai Khamyang, Hrangkhol), Manipur (Onaemila, Chakpa Phayeng, Purum) and Nagaland (Yimchunger, Liang-mai).

The Centre has been running  A 2-year MA Program in Linguistics and Endangered Languages  2 Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) courses:  LE 223: Language, Society and Endangerment  LE 224: Language Policy, Education and Revitalisation

FUTURE PLANS  To compile/write and publish multi-lingual dictionaries and descriptive grammars of the endangered/lesser known languages of the North East; to create online and digital corpus of these languages;

 To work towards revitalization of these languages through school education and create awareness for inter- generational transmission;

 To provide support to the native speakers of these languages in organizing capacity building programs for them- selves; to help the community bring their languages into the sphere of modern technologies;

 PhD and Post-Doctoral research on these languages.

Staff of the Centre for Endangered Languages

4 FACULTY AND STAFF

Faculty members of EFL Faculty members of Research Department (Linguistics Field Assistants Office Staff Wing) CFEL Associates Prof. Madhumita Ba- Dr. Bobita Sarang- Dr. Puspa Renu Raju Ram Boro Dipali Sona Nayak bora them Bhattacharyya Dr. Dhanapati Prof. Gautam K Borah Shougrakpam Dr. Daimalu Brahma Barshapriya Dutta Trilok Narzari Dr. Monali Long- Dr. Arup Kumar Nath mailai Dr. Widinibou Trisha Borgohain Eknath Upadhaya Bipasha Patgiri Nawaf Zahdaan Helmi

Dr. Amalesh Gope Niharika Dutta Elangbam Manimohon Meitei Kethosenuo

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INFRASTRUCTURE

An amount of Rs.3 crore was released as Grants-in-aid (Rs 168.75 lakh for recurring and Rs.131.25 for non-recurring expens- es) to develop the basic infrastructure for the Centre. The diagram below shows the facilities developed at the Centre dur- ing the period January 2016-March 2017.

5 Phonetics Laboratory Documentation Laboratory

CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES TEZPUR UNIVERSITY STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE

HEADWISE BREAK-UPS OF EXPENDITURE

Approved budg- 2015-16 (01-04- 2016-17 (01-04- et Rs 2015 to 31-03- 2016 to 31-03-

60000000.00 2016) 2017) Total Sl.No Head Expen- di- Balance

ture Out of this *Expenditure Expenditure received Rs incurred incurred 30000000.00

1 Books , Journals & Publications 1800000.00 48159.00 268901.00 317060.00 1482940.00 2 Consumables 262500.00 158971.00 91060.00 250031.00 12469.00

3 Equipment 13125000.00 883189.00 12019355.00 12902544.00 222456.00

4 Salary (Non-teaching) 9191818.00 226460.00 3631263.00 3857723.00 5334095.00 5 Salary (Teaching) 2020682.00 0.00 1385484.00 1385484.00 635198.00 6 Seminar/Workshop 900000.00 49223.00 192874.00 242097.00 657903.00 7 Travel 2700000.00 86600.00 1628247.00 1714847.00 985153.00

Total 30000000.00 1452602.00 19217184.00 20669786.00 9330214.00

*see Annexure I, II and IV for the details of purchase and Annexure III for Academic and research work

6 Map showing Centre’s area of field work in the States of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland

Field Trip

The field trips to the Dima Hasao and the districts of Assam; the Senapati, the Kangpokpi, and the West dis- tricts of Manipur; the Tuensang and the Peren districts of Nagaland were conducted simultaneously. The dates of the first field trips were 16 to 30 June 2016. The dates of the subsequent field trips were: 24 October to 14 November 2016; and 18 Febru- ary to 5 March 2017.

BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE LANGUAGES BEING STUDIED AND THE COMMUNITIES

BIATE

Biate is a Kuki-chin language spoken in the district of Dima Hasao in Assam and the Jaintia Hills in . SIL Ethnologue (2016) estimates an approximate population of 19,000 of the Biate community in Assam and Meghalaya. There are about 13 Biate villages under the Umrangso Circle in the of Assam. These are the villages of New Sangbar, Old Sangbar, Langpui, Tingdol, Vaitang Hebron, Khobak, Kharthong, Lungphumphai, Khothlir, Mualdam, Zahai, Kotnipui, and Thu- ruk. The faculty and staff of the Centre have been conducting field work in the Dima Hasao area since June 2016. Till date they have conducted three field trips in the Dima Hasao district: the first and the second field trip were made to the Fiangpui vil- lage; the third to the Mualdam village. The Fiangpui village has 300 native Biate speakers. This village is 6 kilometres away from the town. The Mualdam village has 319 native Biate speakers and it is 152 kms (approx.) from Halflong. The dominant languages spoken in the Dima Hasao area are Halflong , Dimasa, and English. The natives of Biate are well versed in the dominant languages. Biate is spoken in the home domain and the dominant languages are spoken outside the home domain. Biate is definitely endangered in the Dima Hasao area. The traditional occupation of the Biate community is Jhum cultivation and growing ginger, sugar cane, turmeric, etc. The literacy rate of the community is 87%. 51% of this is the

7 literacy rate of the women of the community. The Biate community traditionally worshipped the large python so that they were called Koilam (Kawilam); now the entire community has converted to .

Data collected from the 3 field trips: 1847 lexical items, 675 sentences, 2 stories about the origins of the Biate community. Word sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are completed. Analysis of the sound system, phrases and sentences are in the process.

Phoneme Inventory

Table 1: The Consonant system of Biate

Table 2: The Vowel system of Biate

Biate traditional attire Research Associate & Field Assistant with Informants

8 KHELMA

Khelma (or, Sakachep) is the language of the Khelmas, one of the smallest ethnic groups of the Old Kuki community in North- East India, and they mainly inhabit in the areas of the districts of Dima Hasao, Cachar, Karbi Anglong, Hailakandi, and Karimganj of Assam. The term Khemla is believed to be a British invention when they administered the North Cachar Hills, the Cachar and the Karbi Anglong districts of Assam and the Jaintia hills of Meghalaya. The name Khelma is recognized only in the Dima Hasao district of Assam. In other districts of Assam and the neighbouring states of Manipur, , Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Trip- ura, the community is known as the Sakachep community. According to the SIL Ethnologue (2003), the total population of this community is approximately 25,000 in the entire NE region. Khelma, a Sino-Tibetan language is an unclassified language. Dur- ing the three field trips conducted by staff of the Centre, a total number of ten Khelma villages were covered. These villages come under the New Sangbar Community Development Block of the Umrangso Circle, Dima Hasao, Assam. The names of the villages and the total population of each of them are as follows (population shown within bracktes): Baigaon (154); Bangphri (Ch) (183); Bangphri (H) (159); Dorbin (183); Kekrangsip (98); Tuisnanthuon (38); Tuizonte (146); Langlut (H) (64); Langlut (Ch) (239); and New Kekrangsip (21). These villages are located at different distances from the Umrangso town (the distances are shown in brackets): Bangphri (Ch) (30); Bangphri (H) (21); Dorbin (10); Kekrangsip (18); Tuisnanthuon (10); Tuizonte (30); Langlut (H) (32); Langlut (Ch) (28); and New Kekrangsip (13).

The natives of Khelma are well versed in the dominant languages, spoken around them, i.e. Dimasa, Karbi, Nepali, Biate Hmar, Mizo, and Haflong Hindi. Few can speak English also. Khelma is spoken at home domain and the dominant languages are spo- ken outside the home domain. The status of Khelma is vulnerable (Level 4) according to the UNESCO’s scales of language en- dangerment in terms of intergenerational transmission. The Khelmas practice both settled and shifting forms of cultivation. The agricultural produce includes rice, maize, yam, ginger, turmeric, chillies, vegetables, cotton etc. More than 60% of the popula- tion is presently involved, in one way or the other, in agriculture and sericulture. A handful of the Khelmas are engaged in the government sector and some have opted for small-scale business such as carpentry, poultry and cattle rearing. The literacy rate of the Khelma community which comes under the New Sangbar Community Development Block of the Umrangso Circle, Dima Hasao, Assam is 46.15%. 18.98% of this is the literacy rate of the women. Traditionally, the Khelma community practiced a fusion of naturalism and animism; then they followed the Hindu religion but later converted to Christianity. However, in some cases, traditional influences are found interwoven with Christian beliefs and practices.

Data collected from the 3 field trips: 2000 lexical items; 800 sentences; 4 folk tales; 2 lullabies. Word sound segmentation and phoneme inventory are completed. Analysis of the tonal system, the morphology and the syntax is in process.

Phoneme Inventory

Bilabial Labio- Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal dental alveolar

Plosive p b t d k h h h Aspirated p t k

Nasal m n ŋ

Affricate tʃ

Fricative v s z h

Trill r

Lateral l

Approximant

Table 3: The Consonant system of Khelma

9 Khelma traditional dress Research Associate & Field Assistant with an Informant TAI-KHAMYANG

Tai-Khamyang is a Tai-Kadai language spoken in the Pawoimukh village of the Margherita sub-division in the of Assam. According to the SIL Ethnologue the total population is 200 of which only 50 are fluent speakers of the language. The village is 12 kms away from the Margherita town. Till date two field trips have been conducted in the Pawoimukh village. How- ever, as per the information collected by the staff of CFEL, the total number of fluent speakers has now dropped to 10 speak- ers of the grand-parental generation. The fluent speakers are far beyond the child-bearing age and hence it is too late for nat- ural intergenerational restoration of the language in the home domains. Tai-Khamyang has been assigned the ‘dying’ status on the ethnologue EGIDS scale. The dominant language spoken in the Pawoimukh village is Assamese. According to the 2011 Cen- sus, the literacy rate is 67.51%. The traditional occupation of the Tai- is farming. They are the followers of Threvadi Buddhism.

Data collected from two field trips: 1000 words; 250 sentences; and one narration about the migration of the community. Phoneme Inventory Bilabial Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal alveolar p t k h h h Aspirated p t k Nasal m n ɲ ŋ tʃ s h Lateral l w j Table 5: The Consonant system of Tai Khamyang

10 Table 6: The Vowel system of Tai -Khamyang

The Pawoimukh Village Field Assistant with an Informant

HRANGKHOL

Hrangkhol is a Kuki-chin language spoken in the district of Dima Hasao in Assam, and also in parts of , Manipur and Mizoram. The SIL Ethnologue (2000) estimates an approximate population of 18,700 for the Hrangkhol community. There are about 10 Hrangkhol villages under the Haflong Circle in the Dima Hasao district of Assam. Till date only one field trip(18 Feb to 5 March 2017) has been conducted by the field assistants of CFEL in the Zion and the Muolpong villages of the Dima Hasao district. The Zion village has 800 native speakers. This village is 10 kilometres away from the Haflong town. The Muolpong vil- lage has 350 native speakers and is 6 kms (approx) away from the Halflong town. Hrangkhol is spoken in the home domain and the dominant languages such as Haflong Hindi, Dimasa and English are spoken outside the home domain. The traditional occu- pation of the community is Jhum cultivation. The literacy rate of the community is 85%. Hrangkhols are mostly followers of Christianity.

Data collected from one field trip: 1500 lexical items; 100 sentences; 1 story on the origins of the community; and 2 folktales. Phoneme Inventory: Word sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are in process.

Field Assistant with Informants Entrance to the Zion Village

11 ONAEMILA

Oinam, one of the villages, is located on top of a hill surrounded by exquisite views. The village is 168 km away from Imphal; it is 88.4 km away from the district headquarters of Senapati. According to Census 2011, Oinam has a total popu- lation of 4328. The word ‘Oinam’, which is officially recorded by the , is derived from the word onae- me meaning ‘the mud smelling people’, which is probably related to their expertise in pottery. Thus, the name of the language became ‘the language of the mud smelling people’, i.e. Onaemila (la ‘language’). Though the language is considered unclassi- fied, the data and their ethnic identity show that it is closely related to the Southern Naga group of the Tibeto-Burman family. Till date two field trips have been conducted in the Oinam and the Ngamju villages in the (18 Feb - 5 March, 2017). The dominant languages spoken in these villages are Manipuri and English. Onaemila is spoken both at home and the market place. It is used in religious functions. The dominant languages are spoken to interact with other communities. The traditional occupation of the Oinam community is Jhum cultivation and pottery. 99% of the community have converted to Christianity. The remaining 1% is Pegan. The literacy rate of the community is 90.67% in Oinam and 42.81% in Ngamju.

Data collected from the 3 field trips: 3000 words; 350 sentences; 9 narratives;1 story; and 3 songs. Word sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are completed.

Phoneme Inventory Bilabial Labio- Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal dental alveolar Plosive p b t d k h h h Aspirated p t k Nasal m n ŋ Affricate tʃ Fricative v s z ʃ h Tap/ Flap ɾ Lateral l Approximant w j

Table 7: The Consonant system of Onaemila

Table 8: The Vowel system of Onaemila

View of the Oinam Village, Senapati Field Assistant with Informants 12 CHAKPA PHAYENG Chakpa Phayeng is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the , Manipur. It is considered a dialect of Mani- puri. It is spoken in the Chakpa Phayeng village located in the Lamshang Tehsil of Imphal West district, Manipur with a total of 660 families (a population of 2728). This village is 13km away from the district headquarter Lamsang. Till date only one field trip (16 to 30 June 2016) has been conducted in the Chakpa Phayeng village. Chakpa Phayeng is now obsolete although some of them are in the lips of ritual experts in connection with the annual merry-making ceremony of the community, mourning of one’s death and Lai Haraoba rituals. It is also used in everyday worship of their gods. The traditional occupation of the Chakpa Phayeng community is cultivation, pig farming and making of local rice beer. The literacy rate of the community is 75.17% compared to that of 76.94% of Manipur. The male literacy rate stands at 83.88% while the female literacy rate is 67.13%. The Chakpa Phayeng community traditionally worships gods Sanamahi, Leimarel, Pakhamgba, Soraren, and Koubru.

During the investigation it was discovered that Chakpa Phayeng is very close to Meitei (Manipuri). Subsequently, the investiga- tion was discontinued, and the concerned team is now studying the instead. However, although there are more similarities than differences between Chakpa Phayeng and Meitei, the tonal variation of Chakpa Phayeng is quite differ- ent from that of Meitei, the language of the dominant group of the Manipuri community.

Data collected from the first field trip: 1050 lexical items; 150 sentences; 2 folk songs; 2 narratives.

Phoneme Inventory Bilabial Labio- Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal dental alveolar Plosive p t c k

h Aspirated p th kh Nasal m n ŋ Fricative s h Trill r Lateral l

Approximant w j Table 9: The Consonant system of Chakpa Phayeng

Field Assistant with an Informant The Chakpa Phayeng Village 13 PURUM

Purum is a Kuki-Chin language spoken in the Kangpokpi District of Manipur (the then Senapati District). Because of a rapid fall in the population, intermarriage with speakers of other languages and language contact with the dominant Manipuri language, the Kuki-Chin language is now a critically endangered language. The area of study is presently confined only to the Purum Likli village, which is 40Kms away from Imphal and is under the Saikul sub-division of the Kangpokpi District. According to the Mani- pur Census 2001, the total population of Purum was 571, but the figure has dropped in the recent times as claimed by the local villagers. The Purum Khullen village has a mixed population of Kom and Purum speakers and the many Purum speakers in this village are now shifting to the . The other languages that are spoken in this area are Kuki, Nepali, and Manipuri. Manipuri is now the most dominant language that speakers in this area are now shifting to for all purposes. G.A. Grierson (1908) had included Purum in the Old Kuki-Naga group whereas; Robert Shafer (1974) classified it under the Old Kuki branch of the Kukish section of the Burmic Division. The traditional occupation of the Purum community is Jhum cultivation and rearing domestic animals. The literacy rate of the community is 84.62% against the 76.94% of Manipur. In Purum Likli village, male literacy stands at 89.77%, while the female literacy rate is 80.37%.The entire community of Purum Likli has converted to Chris- tianity.

Data collected from 2 field trips 2500 words; 250 sentences; 1 story. Word sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are completed.

Phoneme Inventory Bilabial Labio- Alveolar Palato- Palatal Velar Glottal dental alveolar Plosive p b t d k

Aspirated ph th kh Nasal m n ŋ Affricate tʃ dʒ Fricative s h Tap/flap r Lateral l

Approximant w j

Table 11: The Consonant system of Purum

Table 12: The Vowel system of Purum

View of Purum Likli Village Field Assistant with Informants 14 YIMCHUNGER

Yimchunger (ISO 639-3: yim) is one of the endangered languages of Nagaland and it belongs to the Sino-Tibetan group of the Tibeto-Burman . According to Burling (2003), Yimchunger belongs to the Ao group of Kuki-Naga sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It is spoken in some parts of the Tuesang and Kiphire districts of Nagaland. Bradley (1997) has classified Yimchunger under the Kuki-Chin-Naga sub-group of the Tibeto-Burman language family. According to the Ethno- logue (2011) report the total number of speakers of Yimchunger is 92,100. However, according to Census Report 2001, it is 72,030. Three field trips have been conducted in the Kuthur village, which is quite a large village situated in the Sotokur sub- division of the Tuensang district, Nagaland, with a total of 422 families. It has a population of 2274 according to the 2011 Cen- sus. The literacy rate is 73.83% (2011).

Data collected from 3 field trips: 1800 lexical items; 165 sentences; 2 stories about the origins of the Yimchunger community and 2 folk songs. Word sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are completed.

Phoneme Inventory

Bilabial Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Palato-Alvelar Velar Glotal unaspirated p b t d k g Plosive aspirated ph th kh unaspirated ts tʃ Affricate aspirated tsh dʒ Fricative s z ʃ ʒ h Approximant w j Nasal m n ɲ ŋ unaspirated r Tap, flap aspirated rh Lateral l Table 13. The Consonant system of Yumchunger

Table 14: The Vowel system of Yumchunger

View of the Kuthur Village, Tuensang Field Assistants with villagers of the Kuthur Village 15 LIANGMAI

Liangmai (ISO 639-3) belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family under the Zeme-Naga group (Burling 2003). Earlier It was classified under the Kuki Naga subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family by Grierson (1903). It is spoken mainly in Manipur (the Tamenglong headquarters; the Tamei and Tousem sub divisions; the Senapati district; and Kanglatongbi of Imphal West) and Nagaland (the Tening Sub-division; Jalukie, Peren, and Kohima dis-tricts). According to the SIL Ethnologue (2001), the total population of the community is 34,200 speakers (approx). Liangmai and Zeme are referred to collectively as Zeliang in Nagaland; in Manipur, they are, however, recognised separately as Zeme and Liangmai. The dominant languages spoken in the are Nagamese, Zeme and English.

There are about 15 Liangmai villages in the Peren district of Nagaland. The staff of CFEL has conducted three field trips in the Peren district: the first and second field trips were conducted in the Ntu village and the third field trip in the Tening and the Ntu village. Ntu has a total population of 1153 people of which 608 are males and 545 are females according to the Census 2011. The Tening town, which is close to Ntu, is approximately 21 km away from the sub-district headquarters Tening and 69 km away from the district headquarters Peren. The majority of the Ntu people do shifting cultivation and grow oranges, chil- lies, bananas, turmeric and the like. The area of study is presently confined only to the Ntu village, which is 69 kms away from the Peren District of Nagaland. According to the 2011 Census, Ntu has 209 households and the literacy rate is 76.35 % against the 79.55 % of Nagaland. In Manipur, all Liangmais follow Christianity as their religion. However, in Nagaland, a small section of the people at the Tening village still follow their traditional religion, i.e. a Heraka cult that was founded by Mr. Jadonang and .

According to UNESCO, the endangerment status of the language is vulnerable. Originally, the Liangmais were known as Kyliangmaikhatmai (kyliang ‘sector’; khat ‘one’; mai ‘people’). In the present day, the name Liangmai means ‘one group’.

Data collected from 3 field trips: 2300 lexical items; 570 sentences; 4 folk songs; 5 stories about the origins of the Liangmai community. The sound segmentation and the phoneme inventory are completed.

Phoneme Inventory

Place of Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Articulation Vl Vd Vl Vd Vl Vd Vl Vd Vl Vd p b t d k g § ph th kh Nasals m n ŋ Affricate ts s z h Lateral l Flap r Approximant w j Table 15: The Consonant system of Liangmai Table 16: The Vowel system of Liangmai

Performing Magubo (Ho-hoing) by Liangmai men Performing martial art during the Chagaa festival

16 Ethnolinguistic details of the languages BIATE KHELMA HRANGKHOL PURUM ONAEMILA CHAKPA LIANGMAI YIMCHUNGER TAI KHAMYANG PHAYENG

Endangerment Definitely Vulnerable Vulnerable **Critically Vulnerable Endangered Vulnerable Developing Critically Endangered index Endangered (UNESCO) (UNESCO) Endangered (shifted to (UNESCO) (UNESCO) (UNESCO) standard Manipuri) Ethnologue code ISO 639-3 biu ISO 639-3 sch ISO 639-3 hra ISO 639-3 Unclassified ISO 639-3 mni ISO 639-3 ISO 639-3 yim ISO 639-3 ksu pub njn Genetic Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto- Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto- Tibeto- Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Kam-Tai, Tai, affiliation Kuki-Chin, Tibeto- Burman, Kuki- Southern Naga Burman, Burman, Central Naga Southwestern Northern, Biate Unclassified Burman, Sal, Chin Kuki-Chin Kuki-Chin- Naga, Kuki- Chin, Northern

Places where Assam; Megha- Assam,Mizoram, Assam; Tripu- Purumlikli Senapati district, Manipur Manipur and Tuensang dis- Pawoimukh Village, the language is laya, Tripura, Tripura, Meghala- ra; Manipur village, Nagaland trict, Nagaland Margherita, Tinsukia spoken Mizoram and ya and Nagaland and Mizoram Purum- Manipur Assam Manipur khullen, Kangpokpi 17 District, Mani- pur Places visited for (1) Fiangpui Baigaon, Tui- Haflong, Dima Purumlikli Oinam and Chakpa Ntu village Kuthur village Pawoimukh Village data collection village near zonte, Tuisnan- Hasao, Assam village, Kang- Ngamju villages, Phayeng Vil- and Tening and Shamator Haflong town, thuan, Dorbin, (Zion, pokpi District, Senapati district, lage, Imphal village, Town, Tuen- Dima Hasao Kekrangsip, New Moulpong Manipur Manipur West District, Manipur (2) Mualdam Kekrangsip, villages) Manipur sang District, village under Bangphiri and Nagaland Umrangso Bangphr, Langlut subdivision, and Langlut, Um- Dima Hasao, rangso Circle, Dima Hasao district.

Domains of use Home, rituals, Home, Songs, Home, school, Home (**field Home, Songs, Rituals Home, folk Home, folk Rituals informal conver- radio pro- informal situa- assistants rituals, religious songs, song, sations grammes tradi- tions, radio observe that functions, infor- school, radio school, radio tional rituals, programme, Purum is mal situations programmes, informal rituals, festi- used at the and market rituals, infor- programme, vals, religious home domain place. mal situa- rituals, ceremonies. by all age tions, market informal groups), ritu- place situations, als, festivals, market Informal set- place up Total Population 19,000 (Acc. to 25,000 18,700 2728 (2011) 8930 (census 2728 (2011) 65,000 92,100 (2001 800 (ethnic population Ethnologue (ethnologue (ethnologue census) as per ethnologue) 2015) 2000) All North- 2000) 2011) eastern states including Assam

Population of the Approx 300 in 1285(Census 2000 2728 4328 2728 1,153 in Ntu- 2,274 in Kuthur 50 village visited Fiangpui and Report ,2011) village and village and 319 in Mualdam 2,525 in 4,257 in Tening vil- lage Shamator vil- lage Intergenerational Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No transmission

Contact lan- Biate, English, Only Halflong English, Hindi, Purumlan- English, Hindi, Standard English, Na- English, Hindi, Assamese, Hindi, guages Haflong Hindi, Hindi, English, Bengali, As- guage, Stand- Manipuri, Poula, Manipuri gamease Nagamese Singpho Mizo, Hmar Bengali, As- samese, Di- ard Manipuri Maram (Meiteilon), andZeme samese, Dimasa, masa, Biate, (Meiteilon), English. Biate, Hmar, Mizo Hmar, Mizo English. 18

Some findings of the languages investigated Pronominals

Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang Phayeng SG ki/keima kei/ka kei kəi әi a i i kau 1 DL einiroi one ənai/inia

PL kin/keimani kan eini kəini әikhoi odaŋ əliu isa hau SG ni/naŋma naŋ naŋ nəŋ nәŋ na pa nə mɯ 2 DL noŋniroi nelao panai

PL nin/naŋmani naŋni anni nəŋni nәkhoi nudaŋ paliu nəsa mɯ

SG a hi/so amapa/amanu əma mәhak pa naŋ api mɯn 3 DL anniroi padi nəliu

PL an hiŋei/soŋei anni əmani mәkhoi rodaŋ paliu arə su Numerals Cardinal Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang Numeral phayeng 1 kʰatka ankʰat inkʰat inkʰət әma ala khat khəlaŋ ləŋ 2 inika annik inhni Ini әni adi nia mahne soŋ 3 itʰumka antʰum intʰum inthum әhum atʰuŋ sum mahsan sam 4 ilika manli minli minli mali adi mədai phəŋu si 5 raŋaka raŋa riŋa raŋa maŋa aŋo məŋiu phi ha 6 iruka aruk kiruk kuruk taruk aʒu tsərok thərok hok 7 sarika sari sari sari taret ani tsənia thəɲe ci:t 8 iriatka ariet kiriet kiret nipal atʃa tətsat təzha pɛt 9 ikuaka akua kuok ko mapal aku tsəkiu təku kao 10 somka som som som tara aro kəriu thərə sip 100 rizaka razakʰat irzakʰat rəɟakhət cama kila kai tʃikhəlaŋ pak 1000 saŋka asaŋkʰat sangkʰat bukhət lisiŋ tʰəŋla saŋ awoŋkhəlaŋ heiŋ 19

Ordinal Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khami- Numeral phayeng yang st 1 akʰatna ankʰatna inkʰatna inkhətcəŋna әhanpa ʒikai kəraibu akubie nd 2 anikna annikna inhnina wainicəŋna әnisupa aditʃaŋ pəniabu maɲiepə rd 3 atʰumna antʰumna intʰumna waithumcəŋna әhumsupa atʰoutʃaŋ pəsumbu masampə th 4 alina manlina minlina waiminlicəŋna malisupa aditʃaŋ pəmadaibu phiyipə th 5 araŋna raŋana riŋana wairaŋacəŋna maŋasupa aŋotʃaŋ pəŋiubu phəŋupə 6th arukna arukna kirukna wairukcəŋna taruksupa aʒutʃaŋ pətsarokbu throkpə lost th 7 asarina sarina sarina waisaricəŋna taretsupa anitʃaŋ pətsaniabu thəɲipə th 8 ariatna arietna kirietna wairetcəŋna nipalsupa atʃatʃaŋ pətatsatbu təzhapə th 9 akuakna akuana kuokna waikocəŋna mapalsupa akutʃaŋ pətsakiubu tokupə th 10 asomna sɔmna somna waisomcəŋna tarasupa arotʃaŋ pəkiubu thərəpə 100th asaŋna razakʰatna irzakʰatna wairaɟakhətcəŋna camasupa kilatʃaŋ pəkaikhat Human body parts Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang Phayeng Eye mit mit mit mit mit mitʰo mik məkdʒi hoita Ear ikuar kuar mikuor kor nakoŋ no kun nəkhən hu Head lu lu lu lubur kok pe pi ku ho h Hair sam sam səm səm sәm pesai t am kuhə pʰum Tongue lei malei milei maləi lәi le li məlo lin Tooth ha ha ha ha ja vo hiu hə kʰeu Nose nar nar hnar nar naton no niu nupoŋ hunaŋ Hand kut kut kut kut khut bo bin khaʔ mɯ Leg ke ke ke ke khoŋ pʰa ŋen dʒiŋ tin

Kinship terms Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang 20 phayeng

Parents kinu-kipa nu pa palenu ipaima pupome puipiu tʃaume

Father pa pa pa pa ipa po piu puhrə tʃau

Mother nu nu nu nu ima pu pui pierə me

Daughter nainu nainupaŋ nainupaŋ sənu icanupi nenu na§pui luksau

Son naipa naipasal naipasal səpa icanupa nipone na§piu luktʃai

Grandfather epu pu pu pu ipupok pu pao pu

Grandmother epi pi pi pi ipenpok pi pe ja

Brother unai upa/naipa irzirpuipasal upa inao po pətsipiu ai

Sister farnu unu/nainu irzirpuinupaŋ unu ice ta pətsipui pisau

Husband pasal lompa apasal ərotʰər ipuroipa kaupune pəkina pʰu

Wife nupui lomnu adoŋma ənuməi itu niupu pənao mei Natural elements Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang phayeng Earth ram ramual pil ləithoicuŋ prithipi tindiphu kədi alomi ləŋlinmounkan Stone luŋ luŋ luŋ nuŋ ta tədui loŋ Water tui tui tui tui isiŋ du tsəmi ke:la nəm Fire mei mei mei məi mәi ma təniaŋ mo pʰəi Wind pʰaivua pʰaivuo pʰaiwo phaiwo-kəraŋ nuŋsit telɯ kəmuaŋ apoŋ loumluŋ Cloud sum sumpʰai sum sumphai mәŋlipa noŋ mau tiŋsa amo moi Rain roasur rua ruo ro noŋ tiŋrau naimik tsəŋ pʰun Sun ini nisa misa kini numit tiŋmi tsəhiu aɲi bən Moon itʰla tʰa tʰa sortha tha ho tsəŋiu khinu lɯn River tuiduŋ tuiduŋ tuiduŋ tuikoŋ turen ri məluaŋ tsəŋ nəmkʰe Mountain itʰlaŋ mual moul ciŋpui әwaŋpaciŋ ditu tiŋpuk awoŋ moi

Flora and Fauna 21

Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimchunger Tai Khamyang phayeng Tree tʰiŋkuŋ tʰiŋ tʰiŋ thiŋkuŋ upampi tʰeŋbaŋ siŋbaŋ saŋtoŋ tun Root arzuŋ tʰiŋrazuŋ Irzuŋ aruɟuŋ mәra mo siŋmin ayiŋ laŋkʰa Leaf tʰiŋna tʰiŋbua hna thiŋbo una tʰɯŋlɯnoh siŋnui awə Flower par par Par rəipar lәi popo tsərapin saŋpən moʔja Fruit tʰei tʰei tʰei thiŋkara uhәi tʰo tsərasi saŋaso mək Seed tʃimoru tʃimuru ru aru mәru tʰone wasi atʃi Animal sa sa sa ɟulewa sa khuso tsəkhau shiəh totʃɯ h Bird va va va wa ucek raone t ipui wuhnu lok h Fish ŋa ŋa Ŋa tuirik ŋa khao tsək a thəŋə pa h Nest arvu varɔbu vairbu warubu ucekmәhum raone kʰene t isit sap həŋ

Wing ritʰla mantʰa mitʰa amultha mәsa raonesoh pəkan gha pik Tail rimei remei irmei arəməi mәmәi raonemah pəmi amo haŋ Horn riki riki irki areki mәci tʃi ke dʒuh kʰau Colour terms

Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimchunger Tai Khamyang phayeng

Black duk ahaŋ aduk akawom amubә atek kətiabu amərak nəm

White ŋoi aŋoi aŋoi akabəŋ aŋәupә akau kəkabu aməye kʰao

Green em aem aem akaem asәŋpә adek mədiabu aphəyak kʰəu

Blue dum adum adum rumo hikok daina məzaibu biji kʰəu

Yellow eŋ aeŋ aeŋ akaeŋ sәnamacu apu məzinbu kelələ lɯŋ

Red sen sen asen akasən aŋaŋpә ahei heŋbu amərəm Leŋ 22

Housing and items of daily use

Gloss Biate Khelma Hrangkhol Purum Chakpa Onaemila Liangmai Yimsunger Tai Khamyang phayeng h Door inkʰar inkʰar inkhar inkhər thoŋ kakʰai nk am tʃimdobə suputu

Window tukver kɔtveŋ tukver inkhərkisin thoŋnao kakʰoriki kəbinki aboŋribit Kitchen tʰlaisin in buin busoŋna caksәŋ pia so bia əlaŋ mozəmo- tikin dopoŋ Bed inkʰar zalmun zalhmun phəncuŋ phәmuŋ laipʰu təzi japkiu ku

Bench tʰlaisin in sukmun lukhəmkasəi phansaŋ baeh tsəbam binkiu ------

Knife inkʰar tʃemte tʃemte cəmte thaŋ kaone tsəheŋ cakku mit

Basket daikot bem seŋkoŋ pai polaŋ kʰulei təkam hah taŋ EVENTS ORGANISED BY CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Administrative events:  Seminar-cum-Meeting of Administrators of CFEL, 1-2 August, 2014.  Second Regional Workshop of CFEL, 6-8 April, 2016.  CFEL Advisory Committee Meeting, 26 July, 2016.

Academic events: th  9 International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistic Society, 5-7 February, 2016.  Workshop on Data Elicitation, 8-20 March, 2016 (Resource person: Prof KV Subbarao, Retd Professor, Delhi University and Dr Vanilal Tluongga Bapui, President, HMAR Literary Society).  Workshop on Computational Linguistics, 27-29 July, 2016 Resource person: Dr Niladri Sekhar Dash, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata).  Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of Northeast India, 4-5 Feb, 2017 (Resource Persons: Prof Klaus Uwe Panther and Dr Linda Thornburg, University of Hamburg, Germany).

Upcoming events: rd  23 International Himalayan Languages Symposium, 5-7 July , 2017 Keynote Address: Prof Van Driem, University of Berne, Switzerland Chief Guest: Prof KV Subbarao, Retd Professor, University of Delhi, New Delhi

Editorial Team

From left to right: Dr. Dhanapati Shougrakpam, Dr. Amalesh Gope, Prof. G. K. Borah, Prof. M. Barbora, Dr. Arup Kr Nath, Dr. Monali Longmailai, Ms. Bipasha Patgiri, Dr. Bobita Sarangthem

23 Annexure I Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University list of equipment Sl. No. Particulars Quantity 1 Server Console, Model: ATEN 1 2 KVM Switch, Model: ATEN 1 3 42U Rack, Model: NET-RACK 1 4 30KVA online UPS with 60 minutes Back-up, Make: Orion 1 5 Storage NAS Based, Make: HP, Model- Store Easy 1650 1 6 Air Conditioner 2.0 Tr. Split Type, Make: Blue Star 9 7 Air Conditioner 1.5 Tr. Cassette Type, Make: Blue Star 1 8 Air Conditioner 1.5 Tr. Split Type, Make: Blue Star 2 9 Air Conditioner 1.0 Tr. Split Type, Make: Blue Star 1 10 Wall Bracket (AC Outdoor Unit Holder) 11 11 Mobile: Samsung Galaxy J7 15 12 Nikon Coolpix Digital Camera:P900 3 13 Panasonic Video Camera: HC-X1000 1 14 Panasonic Video Camera: HDC-MDH2M 2 15 Sony 32GB Memory Card 15 16 Ahuja External Mic: CPH-10 3 17 Ahuja Wireless Microphone: AWM-520VL 4 18 Olympus Digital Voice – Recorder LS-100 15 19 Carry Bag for Video camera 3 20 Digitek Tripod DTR-615 3 21 Digitek charger 4 cell – AA 15 22 Panasonic Headphone, RP-HD 5 20 23 Godrej Rechargeable Battery – 2700 MAH 30 24 Panasonic Battery – VW-VBD58 (for video camera – HC-X1000) 2 25 Panasonic Battery – VW-VBD29 (for video camera –: HDC-MDH2M) 4 26 Panasonic professional Shotgun Microphone 5 27 Smart Board Interactive Board, Model:480 4 28 Projector Optima Short Throw, Model: CSCXCW 4 29 Laptop: HP Probook 440 16 30 Printer, Make: HP, M706N 1 31 Colour Photocopier, Xerox WC7225 1 32 Desktop PC, HP406G1 23 33 Headphone Amplifier, Make: Presonus HP4 1 34 Soundcard for Editing Machine, Make: Presonus Audio Box i2 1 35 12 Channel Professional Mixing Console, Make: Yamaha 12XU 1 36 Workstation for Recording and Editing, Make: Apple iMac MF886HN 1 37 Professional Grade Installed recording device, Make: Denon DN-450R 1 38 SD Card – 8GB, Make: Scandisk 1 39 Alkosign White Board ATRW 120180 3 40 Alkosign White Board ATRW 6090 10 41 Alkosign Felt Notice Board (ATRNBF 120180) with 4 leg stand (AWBS 14l 120180) 2 42 6KVA online UPS with 30 minutes Back-up, 1 Make: Orion 43 AC Timer 1 44 Vacuum cleaner, Make: Euroclean X Force 1 45 Microphone, Make: Shure, Model – SM10A 5 46 Ahuja DAP570 Amplifier 1 47 Ahuja Wall Speaker - WS 664T 4 48 Ahuja DGN Stand 1 49 Ahuja Microphone, AWM490 VHL 1 50 Digitek Card Reader 1

24 Annexure II Centre for endangered languages, tezpur university List of Books Purchasedtill date Sl. Book Name Author Name Qty No. 1 Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction Kroeger, Paul R. 7 2 Introducing Morphology Lieber, Rochelle. 4 3 Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of Briggs, Charles L. 2 the Interview in Social Science Research

4 Linguistic Fieldwork Newman, Paul & Martha, Ratliff. (Ed). 2

5 Indo-Aryan Languages Masica, C. P. 3 6 Typology and Universals Croft, W. 6 7 Exploring Language Structure: A Student’s Guide Payne, Thomas E. 2 9 Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Status and Policies, Saxena, Anju and Lars Borin. (Eds). 2 Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology 10 The Adjectival Category Bhat, D. N. S. 2 11 The Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood Bhat, D. N. S. 2 12 The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Mor- Booij, Geert. 2 phology 13 Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Prag- Cruse, Alan. 2 matics 14 Semantic Analysis Goddard, Cliff. 1 15 Field Linguistics: A Beginner’s Guide Crowley, Terry & Nick Thieberger. 2

16 Pronouns Bhat, D. N. S. 2 17 Language Universals and Linguistic Typology Comrie, B. 2 18 Basic Linguistic Theory (Vols I, II & III) Dixon, RMW. 6 19 Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program Webelhuth, G. (Ed). 2 20 Speech Sounds Ashby, P. 2 21 Generative Phonology Rocca, Iggy. 2 22 Introduction to Functional Grammar Halliday, M.A.K. 2 23 Understanding Phonetics Ashby, P. 2 24 Essentials of Language Documentation Gippert, J. et al. 2 25 Language Technology for Cultural Heritage: Selected Papers Sporleder, Caroline, van den Bosch, 2 from the LaTeCH Workshop Series Antal, Zervanou, Kalliopi. (Eds). 26 Language and Cultural Diversity: The Writings of Debi Prasan- Pattanayak, D. P. (Ed). 4 na Pattanayak (Vols I & II) 27 Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Lan- Lust, Barbara C., Kashi Wali, James W. 2 guages Gair, K. V. Subbarao. (Eds). 28 Language Form and Language Function Newmeyer, Fedrerick. 2 29 Language Typology and Syntactic Description Shopen, Timothy. 6 (Vols I, II & III) 30 South Asian Languages: A Syntactic Typology Subbarao, K. V. 2 31 Language Documentation: Practices & Values Grenoble, Lenore A. 2

25 Sl. Book Name Author Name Qty No. 32 Natural Language Semantics Keith, Allan. 2 33 Social Aspects of Language. In Veena Das et al, eds. Oxford Singh, Udaya Narayana 2 Companion to Sociology & Social Anthropology 34 Language Universals and Linguistic Typology Comrie, B. 2 35 Endangered Languages: Critical Concepts in Linguistics Austin, Peter. K. and Stuart McGill. 5 (Eds). 36 Generative Phonology Chane, S.A. 2 37 Audio CD for Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide Larry H. 10 for Students 38 Phonology: Theory and Analysis Hyman, Larry M. 2 39 Morphology: Descriptive Study of Words Nida, Eugene A. 2 40 An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics Griffiths, P. 2 41 Learning a Field Language Burling, Robbins. 2 42 Introduction to Linguistic Field Methods Vaux, B. & Cooper, J. 2 43 Language Documentation and Description (Vols I & II) Austin, Peter K. (Ed). 2 44 Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of Austin, Peter K., Oliver Bond & David 2 a Conference Nathan. (Eds).

45 Language, Society and Culture (ZICR: Visitations to ZIth Centu- Singh, Udaya Narayana, N. H. Itagi & 2 ry Realities: Part Proceedings of a Seminar) S. K. Singh. (Eds).

46 The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice Hinton, Leanne and Ken Hale. (Ed). 2 47 Language Documentation and Description (Vols I & II) Austin, Peter K.(Ed). 2 48 Tools and Techniques for Endangered-Language Assessment Dwyer, A.M. 2 and Revitalization. In Vitality and Viability of Minority Lan- guages. October 23-24, 2009 49 Language Revitalization Hinton, L. 2 50 Reduplication in South Asian Languages. An Areal, Typological Abbi, A. 2 and Historical Study 51 Semantic Universals in Indian Languages Abbi, A. 2 52 Universals in Linguistic Theory Bach, E. & R. T. Harms. (Ed). 2 53 Large Linguistic Areas and Language Sampling Dryer, M.S. 2 54 Universals of Language (Vols I & II) Greenberg. J. H. (Ed). 2 55 Word Order Universals Hawkins, J. A. 2 56 A Parsing Theory of Word Order Universals Hawkins, J. A. 2 57 South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence and Diglossia Krishnamurti, Bh., Colin Masica, and 2 Anjani Sinha. (Eds). 58 Syntactic Typology Lehmann, W.P. (Ed). 2 59 South Asia as a Linguistic Area Masica, C. P. 2 60 A Method of Language Sampling. Studies in Language 17, 169 Rijkhoff, J., D. Bakker, K. Hengeveld, 2 -203 & P. Kahrel. Total 150

26 CENTRE FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, TEZPUR UNIVERSITY LIST OF ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH WORK FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS

MAJOR RESEARCH FINDINGS/RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Principal Investigator Salient Research Findings Indian Languages Corpora Initiative (Phase-2) DeitY Madhumita Barbora i. Build a Tagged Text Corpus of 100000 sentences for Assamese ii. Chunking of the 17 lakhs parallel sentences Digital preservation of the NE languages (Deity) Madhumita Barbora i. Linguistics analysis and transcription of these languages. ii. Building an archive for the speech and language resources

RESEARCH PROJECTS, COMPLETED AND ONGOING Project Title Funding Agency Amount (in INR) Duration Principal Investigator Indian Languages Corpora Initiative Department of Electronics 61,53,000.00 March, 2012 to Madhumita Barbora (Phase-2) and Information Technology 20th January, 2017 A K Nath (Co PI) (DEITY) Digital Language Preservation Department of Electronics 39,14,000.00 March, 2013 - Madhumita Barbora (PI) and Information Technology Aug, 2017 G K Borah (Co PI) (DEITY) Language Contact and Convergence Indian Council of Social Sci- 5,21,375.00 2 Years Madhumita Barbora study of Bugun (Khowa) in West ence and Research (ICSSR) 2013 – 2015 Kameng District of Arunachal Pra- desh)

AREAS OF INTEREST Names Areas of supervision M. Barbora Syntax, Descriptive and Documentation of lesser known and endangered languages G.K. Borah Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Arup K Nath Language Typology, Morphology, Language Endangerment, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics Bipasha Patgiri Phonology (Prosody, Dialectology and Language Typology) Amalesh Gope Acoustics Phonetics with special interest in Tone, Psychoacoustics, Computational Linguistics, Intonational Phonology and Language Documentation

Bobita Sarangthem Field linguistics and Sociolinguistic Dhanapati Shougrakpam Morphology, Semantics, Field Linguistics Monali Longmailai Morphology, Syntax, Typology, Historical Linguistics, Areal Linguistics & Tibeto-Burman Lan- guages

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 1. JOURNALS: INTERNATIONAL

Barbora, M., Wangno, T. (2015). “: Maintenance Issue”, Linguistics of Tibeto Burman Languages (LTBA), 38(2)

Borah, Gautam K. (2014). “The Fox or Mr Fox”? (On Particularization of the Bare Noun). Journal of Modern Languages. Vol 24 (1)

Longmailai, M. and Cing, Z.N. (2016). “Some Phonological features of Dimasa and Tedim-Chin”, L. Konnerth, S.Morey,P. Sarmah and A. Teo (Eds.) North East Indian Linguistics: Volume 7. Asia-Pacific Linguistics/ANU Press http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95392

Shougrakpam, D. (2014). “Relative Clause Structure in Manipuri”, IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 19, Issue 10, Ver. III, e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845, PP 11-14.

27 2. JOURNALS: NATIONAL

Nath, Arup Kumar. (2014). “CSM induced phonetic changes in modern Assamese”, Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 40 (1-2).

Sarangthem, B. (2014). “Modes of Greeting in Meitelon-Burmese-English”, International Journal of , Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), Guntur, Vol. 1. Issue 3, (108-116) ISSN 2349 – 9451.

Sarangthem, B. (November, 2014). “A Case Study on Consonant Clusters in Meiteilon and Bengali”, 265-274.”, Language in India, Vol. no. 14: 11, ISSN 1930-2940

Sarangthem, B. (November, 2014). “A Comparative Study of the Mechanism to Assign Gender in Sizang, Koireng and Tarao”, 22 -30, Language in India, Vol. no. 14: 11, ISSN 1930-2940.

Sarangthem, B. (2013). Expression of Number in Sizang”, Indian Linguistics 74 (3-4)

Shougrakpam, D. (December, 2014) “Morphosyntactic Analysis of Noun Phrase in Manipuri”, Language in India, Volume 14:12, ISSN 1930-2940, PP 244 – 251

Shougrakpam D. (February, 2014). “Constituent Structure of Noun Phrase in Manipuri”, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities, Volume IV Issue-II, ISSN 2250-1665, PP36-42.

Longmailai, M. (2014). “Adjectives in Dimasa” In J. War, S.K. Singh, S.A. Lyngdoh and B. Khyriem (Eds.). Tibeto-Burman Linguis- tics of North East India. Guwahati, Eastern Book House Publishers.

3. JOURNALS: REGIONAL

Longmailai, M. (2016). “Genetic Classification of Dimasa, Recent Myths and Facts” In Litereria, Volume 4 (2015-2016). Annual Journal of the Department of English, Gurucharan College, .

Sarangthem B. (2015). “Verb stem alternation in Northern Kuki chin (Sizang, Paite and thadou)”, Journal of North-East Region, Vol. 3 No. 1, ISSN 2321-0583

4. BOOKS

Barbora, M. and Borah, G. K. (Eds.). (2016). Aspects of Modern Assamese. Guwahati: Bhabani Print Publications.

Barbora M. (2015). Bugun Nyo Thau: Bugun Reader. Guwahati: Eastern Book House Publishers.

Borah, G. K. (Ed). (2017). Aspects of Language. A Tezpur University CODL Publication.

Nath, Arup Kumar. (2014).Impact of Code Switching- Mixing in Assamese. Guwahati: Assam Publication Board Assam.

5. BOOK CHAPTERS

Barbora, M. (2016). The Agentive Ergativity in Assamese. In M. Barbora and G. K. Borah (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Barbora, M. (2016). Causative Constructions in Assamese. In M. Barbora and G. K. Borah (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Barbora, M. (2016). The Particle ze: A Clitic, a Wh-Operator or a Complementizer? In M. Barbora and G. K. Borah (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Barbora, M. (2015). “Language endangerment: A perspective in endangered cultures and languages in India”. In Endangered Cultures and Languages In India. G K Bera and K Jose SVD(eds.) . Spectrum, Guwahati.

Barbora, M., Acharya, P., Wangno, T. (2015). “Numerals in Bugun, Deori and Nocte”, North East Indian Linguistics (NEILS), 7

28 Borah, G. K. (2017). Sangatmak Bhaxabiggan: etisamuabhax (Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction). In N. Padum (Ed). Bhaxabi- gyanargati-prakriti. Sibsagar: An Asom Sahitya Sabha Publication.

Borah, G. K. (2016). The Inditerminacy of the Bare Noun in Assamese and Its Determination. In M Borbara and Borah, G. K., (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Guwahati: Bhabani Print and Publications.

Borah, G. K. (2016). The Ingressive Progressive in Assamese. In G. K. Borah and M. Barbora (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Borah, G. K. (2016). The Fuzzy Boundary Between Projected Realities and Potential Realities and iba. In G. K. Borah and M. Barbora (eds.) Aspects of Modern Assamese. Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Borah, G. K. (2016). Axamiyar Daxa: Gotdiyek Xamasya (Aspects in Modern Assamese: Some Problems). In D. Das (ed.) Bhaxa- Bikkha (Knowledge of Language). Bhabani Print and Publications, Guwahati.

Borah, G. K. (2014). Bezbarua’srefections on language. In M M Sarma and D P Nath (Eds). Lakshminath Bezbaroa: The Archtecth of Modern . Guwahati: Perfect Imagers.

Longmailai, M. (2017). “Passivization in Dimasa” In S.K. Singh and S.A. Lyngdoh (Eds.) Syntactic Typology: Language Contact and Convergence, EBH Publishers, Guwahati.

Longmailai, M. (2015) A Preliminary Study of Khasi and Dimasa lexemes In M.W. Post and S. De Lancey (Eds.) People and Languages of the Eastern Himalayan Region. Asia-Pacific Linguistics/Spectrum Publications, Guwahati.

Patgiri, Bipasha. (2017). Language Death: A Concern in Dutta, R C and Chetia, P (eds.) Spectrum: Multidisciplinary Thoughts. Guwahati, Assam: Purbayon Publication. pp 20-27. ISBN 978-81-92955-68-1

Patgiri, Bipasha. (2017). Dhwanitatwik Prakriyaaru Bixistatar Tatwa in NahedraPadun (ed.) Bhaxabigyanor Goti-Prokriti. Shivasagar, Assam: Axom Xahityo Xobha. pp 68-87.

Patgiri, Bipasha. (2016). Death of a language: Why we care? Should we care? in , Nabanita (ed.) Anuronon (Resonance). Nalbari, Assam:IQAC, MNC Balika Mahavidyalaya. pp 106- 114. ISBN 978-81-932297-1-2.

Patgiri, Bipasha. (2016). Dhwanitatwa: Bikaxaru Avadharona Bisar in Das, Dipak Kumar (ed.). Tothyoarutotworadharotbhaxar- bisar, Guwahati, Assam: Bhawani books. pp.1-9. ISBN 978-81-931983-2-2.

Nath, A. K, (2015). Bhaxaaru Iyar Xangya, Boishisthy, Upabhaxa, ManyaBhaxa, Kritim Bhaxaaru Rastra Bhaxa, CODL, Tezpur University.

Nath, A. K. (2014). Bezbaroa's language: A linguistic appraisal. In M M Sarma and D P Nath (Eds). Lakshminath Bezbaroa: The Archtecth of Modern Assamese Literature. Guwahati: Perfect Imagers.

6. International Conference Proceedings

Gope, A. and Mahanta, S. (2016), Perfection of Lexical Tones in Sylheti. Proceedings of The TAL-2016, Buffalo, NY.

Gope, A. and Mahanta, S. (2016), Correlation between Sylheti tone and Phonation. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Mahanta, S., Das K, and Gope, A. (2015). On the Phonetics and Phonology of Focus marking in Boro. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Phonology, Vancouver, Canada.

Gope, A. and Mahanta, S. (2015), An Acoustic Analysis of Sylheti Phonetics, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphsproceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0630.pdf

Gope, A. and Mahanta, S. (2014), Lexical Tone in Sylheti. Proceedings of TAL-2014, (pp 10-14). http://www.isca-speech.org/ archieve/tal_2014/tl14_010.html

29 7. SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED BY THE FACULTY

Barbora M.

 attended and presented a paper titled “Nominalization in Koro”, at Nguyen Tat Thanh University at Ho Chi Minh City, Veitnam in International Conference on Linguistics, 15-16 Dec. 2016

 attended in the Workshop Interdisciplinary Research on Language and Speech in Northeast India at IIT Guwahati during February, 28th Feb to 1st March 2015

 attended and presented a paper titled “Bugun Language: maintenance issue”, at SoLE at Kunming, from 21st to 22nd October 2014

 attended and presented a paper titled “Predicate Clauses in Bugun” at the 47th International Conference of Sino Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (47 ICSTLL) and the Sociolinguistics of Endangered Languages (Sole 3), at Kunming, China, from 17th to 22nd October, 2014

 attended and presented a paper titled “Çopulas in Bugun”, at the 47th ICSTLL, at Kunming, China, from 17th to 19th October 2014 Borah, G. K.

 attended and presented a paper titled “Indefinite and Definite Quantifiers in Assamese, at NEILS-9, an international conference, organized in collaboration with Dept of Linguistics, Gauhati University and linguists from University of Or- egon, USA, La Trobe University, Australia, Gauhati University, and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, Tezpur University, 5 January-7 February 2016

 attended and presented a joint paper titled “Nominalization in Tai-Khamti”, at 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium, IIT, Guwahati, 8-10 June 2016

Gope, A.

 attended and presented a paper titled “Polarization and Tonal Dissimilation: A case of Sylheti Suffixation”, at the 3rd Workshop of Tone and Intonation (WTI-3), IIT Guwahati from 7th to 8th January, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Tone and Intonation in Sylheti: A preliminary observation”, at the 3rd Work- shop of Tone and Intonation (WTI-3), IIT Guwahati from 7th to 8th January, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Phonation and Sylheti Tonogeness”, at 37th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, JNU, India from 15th to 17th October, 2015

 attended and presented a paper titled “On the Phonetics and Phonology of Focus marking in Boro”, at the Annual Meeting of Phonology 2015, Vancouver from 9th to 11th October, 2015

 attended and presented a paper titled “An Acoustic Analysis of Sylheti Phonemes”, at the 18th International Congress Of Phonetics Sciences, IChPS-2015, GLASGOW, UK from 10th to 14th August, 2015

Longmailai, M.

 attended Workshop on Computational Linguistics, with special focus on NLP and MT, Department of English and For- eign Languages, Tezpur University, 27-29 July, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Causative Construction in Dimasa”, at 22nd International Conference on Hima- layan Languages Symposium. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 8-10 June 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Reflexives and Reciprocals in Dimasa”, at 9th International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS). Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Febru- ary 5-7 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Language, Identity and Origin of Dimasa”, at National Seminar on The Origin of Dimasa. Dimasa Youth Festival Celebration Committee, Indoor Stadium, NL Daulaguphu Sports Complex, Haflong, 14-16 December 2015

30  attended National Workshop on Youth Empowerment: Paving towards the Future, Lessons from the Past, Dimasa Youth Festival Celebration Committee, Indoor Stadium, NL Daulaguphu Sports Complex, Haflong, 14-16 December, 2015

 attended and presented a paper titled “Passivization in Dimasa”, at International Conference on Syntactic Typology: Language Contact and Convergence. Department of Linguistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 23-24 Novem- ber 2015

 attended International Conference on Syntactic Typology: Language Contact and Convergence, Department of Linguis- tics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 23-24 November, 2015 Nath, A.K.

 attended and presented a paper titled ‘Quest for Identity: The Politics of Language and Census in Assam’ at the Inter- national Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, in the conference "Language, Power and Identity in Asia: Creating and Crossing Language Boundaries" during the period 14-16 March, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled ‘Does a Multilingual Repertoire Propel Changes in Semantic Domains of a Lan- guage? A case of and Deori Languages’ at the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, in the 21st Himalayan Languages Symposium and 36th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal during the period 26-28 November, 2015 Patgiri, B.

 attended and presented a paper titled “Nature of vowel sequences and hiatus resolution in Nalbaria Assamese”, 38th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-38), the Centre for Linguistics Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, 10-12 November, 2016

 attended the Summer School in Linguistic Typology organized jointly by University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and University of Kohln, Germany, Centre IGESA, Hyeres, France, 4-17 September, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Coronal Under specification: Evidence from coronal geminates in Nalbaria As- samese”, 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS22), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, 8- 10 June, 2016

 participated in a National Seminar on Biography: Western Theories, Indigenous Practices in Assam, UGC-SAP, Department of EFL, Tezpur University, 30 March, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Hiatus Resolution Strategies”, International Conference on South Asian Languages and Literatures (ICOSAL-12), Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies, University of Hyderabad, 7-9 January, 2016 Sarangthem, B.

 attended and presented a paper titled “Script and Phonology of Meiteilon: A Diachronic Study” at the International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI - 38), at IIT, Guwahati from 10th TO 12th November 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Loanword adaptation in Meiteilon” at the International Conference Himalayan Language Symposium (HLS-22), at IIT, Guwahati from 8th to 10th June 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Noun Phrase in Manipuri (Meiteilon) as a data structure for Computational process” at the International Conference on Natural Language Process and Cognitive Computing (ICONACC), at Manipur University from 10th to 12th March 2014

 attended and presented a paper titled “A Classification of Components in Sizang Kinship terms” at the International Conference of South Asian Language (ICOLSAL- 11) at Banaras Hindu University from 23rd to 25th January 2014 Shougrakpam, D.

 attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and the Languages of the Northeast, organized by Centre for Endangered Languages, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University on 4th-5th February, 2017

31  attended Workshop on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) organized by Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) under Cen- tre of Excellence for curriculum and Pedagogy on 24th-25th November, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Nominal Compounds in Manipuri”, at the 38th International Conference of Lin- guistic Society of India, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, from 10–12 Nov, 2016

 attended Workshop on computational Linguistics with special focus on NLP and MT, Tezpur University from 27th -29th July, 2016

 attended and presented a paper titled “Reduplicated Structure in Manipuri”, at the 36th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, from 1–4 Dec 2014.

 attended The First Orientation cum Workshop on Developing Tools for Computer Aided Translation (English to Ma- nipuri): Morphological Analyzer from 4th – 9th August, 2014

 attended Awareness Programme on use of Computers in Translation from 31st July to 2nd August, 2014

 attended One-Day International Conference on Ethnicity in and NE India held on 8th May, 2014

 attended the International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing held from 10th to 12th March, 2014

8. TALKS BY THE FACULTY IN INDIA AND ABROAD

Arup K Nath delivered a talk as a Resource Person on Unicode and at Kaliabor Session of 73rd Assam Sahitya Sabha Meet on 3rd February, 2015.

Bipasha Patgiri delivered a talk, History and Evolution of Writing Systems, Symposium on Aka (Hrusso) Script, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, 13th – 14th May, 2016.

Gautam K Borah delivered an invited a talk, Drawing a Parallel Between a Classifier and the English Plural Marker, at the Advanced Academic Programme (Linguistics) for the North Eastern States (AAP(L) NES-2017) organized by Linguistic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and held at the Indian Statistical Institute, North East Centre, Tezpur, 9 -11 March, 2017.

Gautam K Borah delivered the 2016 T G Rinpoche Memorial Lecture, Literature: A Lie that Tells the Truth and Gender Bias in the Structure of Language, Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies Dahung, Wes Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, 3 Sep- tember 2016.

Gautam K. Borah was Invited to deliver a talk on Language and Human Existence at the Dept. of English, Patkai Christian College (An Autonomous Postgraduate College) Dimapur, Nagaland on 22 April, 2016.

Gautam K. Borah was invited as a Plenary Speaker and delivered a talk, Language: Just a Means of Communication? in the National seminar on Language, Literature of North East India. Organized jointly by Dept of Assamese, Gauhati University and Indira and Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, 15th – 16th March 2016.

Gautam K. Borah was invited as a Plenary Speaker and delivered a talk, Was in the Beginning the Word or the Deed? (Metaphor and primacy of matter over mind) in the National seminar on The Mind Matters: Language, Cognition and Other Correlations. organized by IIITG, Guwahati, 12 March 2016.

Gautam K. Borah was invited as a Plenary Speaker and delivered a talk, Language and the World of Literature in the National seminar on Studies on North East Indian Language and Cultural Heritage, organized by Dept of Assamese, Madhabdev College, Lakhimpur, Assam, 8th – 9th January 2016.

Gautam K. Borah delivered 4 talks on a Refresher Course in English organised for college and university teachers of English, Dept. of English, Academic Staff College, Manipur University, Imphal, from 27th January – 17th February 2014.

Madhumita Barbora attended as a Plenary Speaker at UGC –sponsored National Seminar on classroom-oriented research around the theme “The English Classroom: Experiments and Experiences” at North Lakhimpur College on 3rd and 4th May, 2014.

32 9. SESSIONS CHAIRED AT INTERNATIONAL/NATIONAL SEMINARS/CONFERENCES Name Events M. Barbora 22nd Himalayan languages Symposium, IIT, Guwahati, June 8 – 10, 2016 North East Indian Linguistic Society (NEILS)-9, TEZPUR University, 5-7 Feb, 2016 G.K.Borah 22nd Himalayan languages Symposium, IIT, Guwahati, June 8 – 10, 2016 North East Indian Linguistic Society (NEILS)-9, TEZPUR University, 5-7 Feb, 2016 36th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI)-I, CIIL, Mysore, 2014

10. Ph.D. supervision Supervisors Students Name Topic Status of Research M. Barbora Jugen Pegu Dialectal Variations in Mising and the Interference of Completed dominant languages Lucky Dey Argument Selection in Sadani / Sadri as spoken in Completed Assam Diganta Nath Nature of Nonfinite Complementation in Assamese Completed Ismail Description of BuluPuroik Submitted Tim Bott Description of Lish and Chug On going Jelina Moshahary Clause structure in Bodo and Dimasa On going Nupur Sinha Description of Koro On going Palash Das Analysis of Assamese Morphology for a Rule-Based On going Assamese Spell Checker Gayatri Das Verb Morphology is Banai: A Descriptive Study On going BipashaPatgiri Phonological Structure of Nalbaria Assamese On going G.K. Borah Kailash Sarma Time and Temporal Structure of Situations: The Case Completed of Assamese Raujline Siraj Farzina Akhtar The Syntax and semantics of the N P in karbi(plains) Submitted Louriyam Bebica Devi A Sociolinguistics study of Khurkhul Submitted Raju Borthakur Errors and Communication Strategies in Web and Submitted Electronically Mediated Communication with Reference to Facebook, Twitter and Textese Trisha Borgohain Grammar of Things and Situations in Tai-Khamti On going A. K. Nath Khammoun Phukan Language and Identity: An Ethnolinguistic Study on Tai On going Ahom of Assam

CFEL STAFF PUBLICATIONS 10. JOURNALS: INTERNATIONAL Bhattacharyya, P. B. (2015). “A Sociolinguistic Survey on Personal Pronouns in Assamese”, IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Volume: 20 Issue:9 (Version-II) p-ISSN:2279-0845. Bhattacharyya, P. B. (2015). “Personal Pronouns in Assamese”, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Develop- ment, Volume:2 Issue:10 p- ISSN:2349-5979. Bhattacharyya, P. B. (2015). “Noun Phrase Structure in Assamese”, Journal of International Academic Research for Multidiscipli- nary, Volume3, Issue11, ISSN:2320-5083. Brahma, D. (February, 2017). “Causative Verb Formation in Bodo language”, International Research Journal of Humanities, Lan- guage and Literature, Vol. No 4, Issue 2, ISSN 2394-1642 Dutta, Niharika., & Pinky, Wary. (2016). “Passive-like Constructions in Boro”, North East Indian Linguistic Society, Vol-8.

33 Meitie, E.M. (December, 2014). “A Study on Mao Case System”, International Journal of Informative and Furistic Research, Vol.2 Issue.5, 2347-1697. Meitie, E.M. (April, 2014). “Numeral System of Mao”, International Journal of English and Education, Vol.3 Issue.2, 2278-4012.

11. JOURNALS: NATIONAL Brahma, D. (2016). “Adverb Formation Process of the Bodo Language”, Language in India, ISSN: 1930-2940 Vol. 16:2. Brahma, D. (2014). “Inflectional Processes of Tense and Aspect in Bodo”, Language in India, Vol-14:1, ISSN: 1930-2940. Borgohain, T. (2015). “The Tai-Khamtis of Assam”, In Dimorian Review. ISSN: 2394-9163. Meitie, E.M. (2014). “The vowel system of Mao”, In The Dawn Journal, Vol.3.no 2, 2277-1786. Meitie, E.M. (2014). “Syllable in Mao”, In Language in India, Vol.14:1, 1930-2940. Widinibou (2017). “The performance of Traditional Religion of the in North East India: Continuity and Change”, Veda’s Journal of English Language and Literature- JOELL 4.2: (ISSN-2349-9753). Widinibou (2017). “Language Endangerment with Special reference to Liangmai Naga”, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Vol. 46. No.2: (ISSN- 0378-2484) Widinibou (2016). “A note on Liangmai Numerals”, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics, Vol XLV-2: (ISSN- 0378-2484). Widinibou (2014). “Case markers in Liangmai”, Language in India. Vol 14: (ISBN-396-407)

12. JOURNALS: REGIONAL

Brahma, D. (2014). “मिि 車नि मिि 車 थुिफ वथ य व बेरख 車ि य बर िि जनि ि वग रर”, KacharniTandwi magazine.

Brahma, D. (2014). “बर' र वख न्थथनि थ रज ”, published in Phwrwnglai Vol-IX, B.D.T.A. Magazine, ISSN 2278-8085.

13. BOOK CHAPTERS (STAFF) Brahma, D. (2015). The Inflectional Affixes in Bodo Published in Book Studies in Literature, Linguistics and Culture of Northeast India,Lakshi Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi-110092, ISBN: 978-93-82120-66-7. Widinibou, Baishya, A. K. (2015). (Eds). Some Aspects of the Liangmai phonology. In Studies in Language, Literature and culture of North east India. Lakshi Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi-110092, ISBN- 978-93-8210-66-7. Pp. 15-31.

14. SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA ATTENDED BY THE STAFF Bhattacharyya, P. R.  attended and presented a paper titled “A Reflection of Cultural Attitudes Towards Animal World through a Folk Tale in Khelma”, in national seminar, organised by Sahitya Akademi and Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, 19 -20 Septem- ber 2016  attended and presented a paper titled “Changing patterns in Assamese among Assamese youths”, in the 9th Interna- tional conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) in Tezpur University, Assam, 5-7 February 2016 Borgohain, T.  attended the Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for the North eastern States (AAP(L)NES-2017), organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI, North East Centre, Tezpur; and the Dept. of English Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, from 9-11 March, 2017  attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the North East, organised by CFEL, Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 4-5th February, 2017

34  attended the Workshop on Computational Linguistics with Special Focus on NLP and MT, held in the Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 27-29 July, 2016  attended and presented a paper titled “Nominalization in Tai-Khamti”, at 22nd Himalayan Languages Symposium, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, from 8th -10th June, 2016  attended and presented a paper titled “The Indeterminacy of the bare noun and its determination in Tai-Khamti”, at International Conference of linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-37) in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 15th – 17th Oct, 2015  attended Workshop on ‘Acoustic Phonetics and Tone’ by Dr Shakuntala Mahanta, Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT, Guwahati in Tezpur University, 24-26 February, 2015 Boro, R.R.  attended the Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for the North eastern States (AAP(L)NES-2017), organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI, North East Centre, Tezpur; and the Dept. of English Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, from 9-11 March, 2017  attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the North East, organised by CFEL, Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 4-5th February, 2017  attended the Workshop on Computational Linguistics with Special Focus on NLP and MT, held in the Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 27-29 July, 2016  attended Workshop on ‘Acoustic Phonetics and Tone’ by Dr Shakuntala Mahanta, Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT, Guwahati in Tezpur University, 24-26 February, 2015  participated in the National workshop on “Curriculum Transaction at Under Graduate Level” held in Barama College, Barama, 26th – 27th Sept. 2014 Brahma, D.  attended and presented a paper titled “Modification and Meaning”,in National Seminar on Language & Linguistics, organized by Bodo Writers’ Academy in collaboration with Department of Bodo, Bodoland University on1st& 2nd November 2014 Dutta, B.  attended the Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for the North eastern States (AAP(L)NES-2017), organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI, North East Centre, Tezpur; and the Dept. of English Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, from 9-11 March, 2017  attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the North East, organised by CFEL, Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 4-5th February, 2017  attended the Workshop on Computational Linguistics with Special Focus on NLP and MT, held in the Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 27-29 July, 2016 Dutta, Niharika  attended the Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for the North eastern States (AAP(L)NES-2017), organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI, North East Centre, Tezpur; and the Dept. of English Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, from 9-11 March, 2017  attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the North East, organised by CFEL, Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 4-5th February, 2017  attended and presented a paper titled “Tense and Aspect Markers in Phong”, at the 9th International Conference of North East Indian Linguistic Society, Tezpur University, Tezpur, 5-7 February 2016  attended and presented a paper titled “Hierarchical Verb Agreement and Inverse Marking in Phong”, at the 22nd Hima- layan Linguistics Symposium, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 8th -10th June, 2016

35  attended Workshop on Fieldworks Language Explorer at the 25th conference of South East Asian Linguistic Society. Payap University, , 27th – 28th May 2015  attended and presented a paper titled “A Preliminary Study on Phong Phonology”, at the 25th International Conference of South East Asian Linguistic Society. Payap University, Thailand, 29h – 31st May 2015  attended and presented a paper titled “Verb Agreement in Phong”, at the 37th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 15th - 17th Oct, 2015  attended Workshop on Documentation of Miju and Tawra conducted by the Department of Linguistics, Gauhati University, 24th May to 9th June, 2014 Helmi, N.Z.  attended the Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for the North eastern States (AAP(L)NES-2017), organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI, North East Centre, Tezpur; and the Dept. of English Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, from 9-11 March, 2017  attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the North East, organised by CFEL, Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 4-5th February, 2017  attended the Workshop on Computational Linguistics with Special Focus on NLP and MT, held in the Dept. of English and Foreign languages, Tezpur University, from 27-29 July, 2016  attended and presented a paper titled “Field Report: Classification of the Bangru Language of Kurung Kumey”, at the 8th International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) 31st Jan to 2nd Feb. 2014  attended Workshop on ‘Acoustic Phonetics and Tone’ by Dr Shakuntala Mahanta, Associate Professor, Department of HSS, IIT, Guwahati in Tezpur University, 24-26 February, 2015 Meitei, E. M.  Attended Workshop on Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for North Eastern States (AAP(L)NES)2017, organized by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, in collaboration with Dept. of EFL, Tezpur University, 9th to 11th March 2017  Attended National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Language of the North East, organized by Centre for Endan- gered Languages, Tezpur University in collaboration with Dept. of EFL, Tezpur University, 4-5 February 2017  Attended Workshop on Computational Linguistics with Special focus on NLP & MT, organized by Dept. of EFL, Tezpur University, 27th - 29th July, 2016  Attended and presented a paper titled “Morphophonemic changes in Mao” at the 22nd Himalayan Languages Sympo- sium (HLS 22), organized by Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Centre for Linguistics Science & Technology, IIT, Guwahati, 8th -10th June, 2016  Attended and presented a paper titled “Verbal Suffixes of Mao”, at the 37 International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-37), organized by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), 15th - 17th Oct,2015  Attended the workshop on National Translation Mission, organized by CIIL, Mysore, at Manipur University, from 4th-9th Aug 2014 Widinibou  attended a three-day Workshop on Advanced Academic Program (Linguistics) for North Eastern States, organised by Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; ISI North East Centre, Tezpur and Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam from 9-11 March 2017.  Attended a two-day National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Languages of the Northeast, organised by CFEL, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam from 4-5 February 2017.  Attended a Training program on Language documentation and Linguistic tools organized by Scheme for protection and promotion of endangered languages (SPPEL), Central Institute of Indian Languages at North eastern regional centre,

36 CIIL, at Guwahati from 13-17 November, 2016.  Attended and presented a paper titled “Oral Narratives as Documents for the Study of Culture Heritage in Liangmai Society”, in National Seminar on ‘Route to Oral Literature’, Sikkim University collaboration with Sahitya Academi, New Delhi from 19 -20 September 2016.  Attended and presented a paper titled “The Performance of Traditional of Liangmai Naga in North east India”, in International Conference on ‘(Re) envisaging India’s Northeast: Ethnicity, Cultural and Literature’, organized by De- partment of English, Assam University, Silchar from 08-09 September 2016  Attended and presented a paper titled “Word Formation in Liangmai”, in the ‘22ndInternational Himalayan Lan- guageSymposium’, IIT Guwahati from 8-10 June 2016.

15. SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA/EXTENSION PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT Organised by Events Organised M. Barbora Computational Linguistics Workshop: Held form 27th& 29th July 2016 Second Regional Workshop Of Centre for Endangered Languages from 6th to 8th April 2016 Workshop on Documentation of Endangered Languages from 18th to 20th March 2016 North East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) IX, International Conference from 5th to 7th Feb. 2016 Workshop on Tone and Acoustics Phonetics from 26th to 27th Feb. 2015 First Regional Workshop Of Centre for Endangered Languages from 31st July to 2nd Aug 2014 Seminar cum Meeting of Administrators, 1st to 2nd Aug, 2014 G.K. Borah National Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics and Language of the North East, organized by Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University in collaboration with Dept. of EFL, Tezpur University, 4-5 February 2017 NEILS-9, an international conference, organised in collaboration with Dept. of Linguistics, Gauhati University and Linguistics from University of Oregon, USA, La Trobe University, Australia, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea and Tezpur University, from 5-7 Feb, 2016 Talks by Prof Scott De Lancey (University of Oregon, USA). organised at Tezpur University 20-25 February , 2014

16.MA DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED Names Areas of supervision M. Barbora 2014 VP Shell in Assamese Case Marking in Bodo 2015 Determiner Phrase in Bodo Verb raising in Assamese 2016 A Minimalist Approach to small clause of Assamese Language Adverb in Relation to X-bar theory Case Marking on core Arguments in Assamese G.K. Borah 2015 Modality in Tiwa: Some Observations from A Cognitive Linguistics Point of View Polysemy in the Bodo Language Semantics and Grammar of Classifiers in Assam Sadri 2016 The Semantics of Motion Events and the Verbs of Motion in Assamese Polysemy and Polysemy in Munda Numeral Classifiers in Hmong: Some Observations from a Cognitive Linguistics point of view The Meaning and Grammar of Space in Assamese Event Schemas: The Case of Assamese Nominalization: The Case of Nepali Determination of the Bare Noun 37 Arup K Nath 2014 Inflection in Darrangia Variety of Assamese The Adjectival Morphology in Sadri as spoken in Assam Noun Morphology of the Verbal Morphology in Mising 2015 Lexicography on Tai-Phake Tense and Aspect in Khasi Tense and Aspect in Turung Tense and Aspect in Deori Case markings in Karbi Tense and Aspect in Tai Phake Lexicography in Bodo 2016 Noun Morphology in Santali Reduplication in Mising Morphophonemic changes and Morphological Productivity in Assam Kurux Variation Study: A comparison between Standard Assamese variety and Barpetiya Assamese variety Lexicography in the Reduplication in Bodo Lexicography in Bipasha Patgiri 2014 Phonology and Phonotactics in Tai-Khamti

2015 A Descriptive Account of Syllable Structure, Tone and Mophophonemics in Boro An Account of the Phonological Structure of the Spoken in the Tezpur District of Assam The Segmental Phonology of Nalbaria Dialect of Assamese The : Its Sound System, Syllable Structure and Phonological processes A Phonological Description of the Tai- spoken in Namphake 2016 The Metrical Stress Pattern in Pathsalia Variety of Assamese The Intonational pattern of declarative and interrogative sentences in Nepali: A descriptive ac- count A Comparative Phonological Study of Two varieties of Nepali: An Optimality Theoretic Account

17. Academic Field Trips Supervised

Sl. No. Name of the Supervisor Language name Area Dates

1 Arup Kumar Nath & Pramod Tiwa Jagiroad, Morigaon Spring 2014 Kumar Nagaon, Assam 2 Arup Kumar Nath & Bipasha- Tai Phake Namphakey and Tipamphakey 10 – 15 June 2016 Patgiri Village Naharkatia, , Assam 3 Monali Longmailai & Raju Deori Bor-Deorigaon Village 15 – 21 December Ram Boro (Tibeto-Burman language) Lakhimpur, Assam 2016

4 Arup Kumar Nath & Bipasha Mising Randhonisuk and Morituni 18 – 22 April 2017 Patgiri Village , Assam

38 Annexure IV Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University LIST OF FURNITURE Sl. Items Quantity No. 1. Table S-1071 1 2. Chair PCH-7001D 1 3. Chair PCH-7003 4

4. Table T-9 8 5. Chair PCH-7002D 12 6. Chair CH-7B 14 7. Table T-8 8 8. Chair CH-1018 10 9. Storwel Plain 2 10. Book Case 4 Door 4 11. Filing Cabinet 1 12. Companion C-9 (Computer Table) 20 13. Chair PCH-4103 (Computer Chair without handle) 20 14. Unlearn 1 Seater 900W (Computer Workstation Table at Phonetic Lab) 4 15. Unlearn 2 Seater 1500W (Computer Workstation Table at Phonetic Lab) 8 16. Chair PCH – 4103I 20 17. Insight 900W (Supervisors table at Phonetic Lab) 1 18. Chair – CH7112 (workstation chairs) 1 19. Wooden Podium 1 20. Wooden platform 2 21. Cushioned Chair with quarter desklet, Make: Godrej, PCH-1112D 50

Artefacts of the Oinam Village, Senapati district, Manipur

39 Workshop on Cognitive Linguistics, 4 - 5 February 2017 Resource Persons: Dr. Klaus-Uwe Panther, Professor Emeritus, Hamburg University, Germany and Dr. Linda L. Thornburg, Hamburg University, Germany

Workshop on Computational Linguistics, 27-29 July 2016 Resource person: Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

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