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Educational
Qualification: |
M.A.
in Linguistics, University of Kerala. |
Previous
Teaching and Research Experience:
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Organized
several Linguistics Training Programmes and taught Phonetics,
Phonomics, Ethnolinguistics and Material Production to Language
Officers and University Teachers in different States. Taught
Tamil as a Second Language to Teacher Trainees in SRLC, CIIL
at different instances ranging from a few weeks to a few months. |
Current
Responsibilities:
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Working
as a member in the Research Group for Studies on Tribal and
Endangered Languages. Editing a volume for CIIL on 'Language
Endangerment'.
Involved in the creation of CIIL's Translation website 'Anukriti'.
Involved in CIIL's LIS (Language Information Service) -India
project. |
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Writing
a Car Nicobarese Grammar and compiling a Car Nicobarese-Hindi-English
trilingual dictionary which are to be completed soon.
Working
on Computational Linguistics related to Machine Translation
and Reversible Electronic Dictionaries. |
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Language Description; 2) Language Endangerment; 3) Ethnolinguistics;
4) Computational Linguistics. |
Major
Publications: Books: |
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- Ro
Tarik 1 Car Nicobarese primer Level 1 (published)
- Ro
Tarik 2 Car Nicobarese primer Level 2 (published)
- Ro
Tarik 3 Car Nicobarese primer Level 3
- (To be published) Car
Nicobarese - Hindi Biliteracy primer.
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Endangered Languages in the Indian Context' (with V.Gnana Sundaram)
in Linguistics Heritage of India and Asia. Ed. by O.N.Koul & L.Devaki,
CIIL, Mysore, 2000. |
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Presented
a paper on 'Material Production for Literacy with Socio-Economic Development
as a goal' in the seminar on Literacy and Socio-Economic Development,
Tamil University, Thanjavur 23-25, Oct., 2000. (to be published). |
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Presented
a paper on 'The Unique Qualities of Tribal Bilingualism' in the seminar
on 'Tribal Bilingualism in India', CIIL, Mysore, 20-22, Dec, 2000.
(to be published in the Seminar proceedings) |
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Presented
a paper on 'Characteristics of Language Endangerment in India' in
the Post conference (ICOSAL-3) Seminar on 'Language Endangerment and
South Asia', University of Hyderabad, 6-7 Jan., 2001. (to be published
in CIIL's volume on Language Endangerment) |
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Presented
a paper on 'Language Planning for Endangered Language and Underprivileged
Languages' in the National Symposium on Language Movements in India,
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 21-22, Feb., 2001. (to be published). |
| Specific
Interests and Hobbies |
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1)
Learning New Languages |
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2)
Generating Language Games. |
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