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An Indigenous and Endangered Languages Laboratory (IELLAB), with the mandate of documentation, preservation, and world survey of indigenous and endangered languages, has been acceptable up astatine the University of Madras with backing from Karur Vysya Bank’s (KVB) Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.
The facility, claimed to beryllium South India’s archetypal dedicated laboratory for probe connected indigenous and endangered languages, was inaugurated by B. Ramesh Babu, Managing Director and CEO, Karur Vysya Bank, recently.
The laboratory would supply a dedicated organization abstraction for systematic research, documentation, and community-led preservation of endangered languages, according to S. Armstrong, Head, Centre for Endangered Languages, University of Madras.
In its archetypal phase, the IELLAB volition absorption connected documenting and studying indigenous languages with beardown moorings to South Indian landscapes, including Soliga, Kota, Toda, Irula, and Badaga, which are astatine varying levels of vulnerability.
The laboratory volition emphasise beardown assemblage engagement with indigenous elders, scholars, and students to supply scope for inter-generation cognition transportation and continuity of remaining taste traditions.
The laboratory has been envisioned arsenic 1 that combines world rigour with technology-enabled preservation. It would absorption connected audio-visual archiving of languages, oral histories, folklore, rituals, and taste practices.
Among those contiguous astatine the inauguration were AVM K. Shanmugam, Secretary, Avichi College of Arts and Science and Managing Director, AVM Productions; M. Srinivasan, Head, Social Work and Criminology Department, University of Madras; Supala Pandiarajan, Head, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Madras; and G. Sudhandiran, Associate Professor, Biochemistry Department, University of Madras.
