Linguist Anvita Abbi, stressed the need for documentation of languages spoken by minority communities to preserve these languages for future generations.
She was speaking the inauguration of training workshop on documentation of languages facing extinction organised by the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) at its campus. She said, “Efforts like proper research, survey, data collection, field work, analysis, archiving and documentation are must for conservation of languages that are facing danger.”
Language is an effective Communication, there were instances of thousands of these tribes who saved their lives when they were fishing when a Tsunami struck the seashores of Andaman Nicobar Islands a few years ago. Likewise, there are several endangered languages like Halbi in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh,Sadari Jharkhand, north-eastern states languages like Chokri, Kheza, Sangatan and Teniyada