Anvita Abbi

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Anvita Abbi is an Indian linguist renowned for her pioneering work on the endangered languages of the Andaman Islands and other lesser-known South Asian languages.

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instanceOf Indian linguist
academic
linguist
person
awardReceived Kenneth Hale Award
Padma Shri
Sahitya Akademi Award
continentOfActivity Asia
contributedTo documentation of oral traditions in Andamanese communities
preservation of Great Andamanese language
countryOfCitizenship India
educatedAt Cornell University
University of Delhi
employer Jawaharlal Nehru University
fieldOfWork Andamanese languages
linked to: Andamanese

South Asian languages
endangered languages
language documentation
linguistics
focusesOn indigenous languages of India
small language communities
threatened linguistic varieties
gender female
hasPublishedOn Andamanese ethnolinguistics
Great Andamanese grammar
South Asian minority languages
hasRole field linguist
language documenter
university teacher
knownFor documentation of lesser-known South Asian languages
research on endangered languages of the Andaman Islands
work on Great Andamanese language
languageOfWorkOrName English
Hindi
memberOf linguistic scholarly community in India
nationality Indian
notableWork A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language
Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language
Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands
occupation linguist
professor
placeOfActivity Andaman and Nicobar Islands
positionHeld professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
researchInterest language endangerment
language revitalization
language typology
workLocation New Delhi
linked to: New Delhi, India

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