RONO HILLS, Feb 19: As a part of the ongoing research, the Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL) is organising a weeklong “workshop on Meyor language documentation” from February 19 at Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies (AITS), Rajiv Gandhi University. As per UNESCO report 2009, Meyor is one of the critically endangered languages of Arunachal Pradesh. A team of Meyor speakers from Walong and Kibithoo circle of Anjaw district are taking part in this workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to bring the native speakers to the University and provide a common platform to interact with students and scholars, and to carry out the language documentation.
During the introductory session, Prof. Saket Kushwaha, the Vice Chancellor, RGU interacted with the participants and expressed his gratitude to the community members for their efforts and interest to reach out the University. He also expressed his concern over preserving the lesser known endangered languages and culture of the state for posterity. Prof. Amitava Mitra, the Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tomo Riba, Registrar, RGU, Prof. S. Simon John, Coordinator, CFEL and other CFEL staff also were present in the introductory session. The workshop is in continuation to two previous fieldworks carried out on the Meyor community by the CFEL research team in the recent past.
The CFEL is a University Grant Commission (UGC) sponsored research cell that is working since 2016. It is a multidisciplinary centre that constitutes a team that comprises scholars from Anthropology, Folklore, Linguistic, Tribal Studies and Mass Communication. The objective of the research centre focuses on field survey, documentation, and analysis of critically endangered languages of Arunachal Pradesh. It studies the speech communities in their socio-cultural contexts as well. ES Newsdesk

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