The languages or dialects spoken by many tribes and communities across the country have been documented in a fixed standard format followed all across the country.
Your ideas of 'HuHuBaBa' of a tribal language can be changed once you go through the books or browse through websites of Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), conducted by hundreds of volunteers all across the country in the last two years. The survey, considered to be one of the biggest of its kind in the history of the country, has covered 15 states and three Union Territories so far and is in several languages.
The languages or dialects spoken by many tribes and communities across the country have been documented in a fixed standard format followed all across the country. Talking to DNA, one of the volunteers connected to the PLSI, Ankur Garange said that these are the languages which have been spoken by a fixed group of people in a fixed area. For instance, Garange has documented the Daffer language of the Daffer community of Gujarat.
Volunteers like Garange had followed a fixed format that was designed by linguist and tribal activist Dr GN Devy. The grammar, songs, geographical area and approximate people speaking such languages or dialects etc have been included in the survey. The results of the survey were released in book format recently. Gradually it will be posted on 122 different websites.
"We have already booked the space for these websites and the content will be generated in the next one year," said Vipul Kapadia, co-ordinator, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre.
Anshul Agrawal, designer, BRPC, told DNA that currently some translations of the gist of the languages surveyed under PLSI have been posted on the websites.
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