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I’ve been researching tribal languages in Northeast India for 20 years. Like everywhere else in the world we face a huge task of language documentation before so much is lost.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">There are passionate students in Northeast India willing to put time and effort into this work. I’ve been supporting several students from India to undertake an advanced
Linguistics MA at a University in Thailand, so that they can go back to India and do this kind of work more effectively.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span lang="en-US">I’ve started a Crowdsourcing project on Indiegogo, to support the costs of training an MA student, Deepjyoti Goswami, who is working on the Rera (Ronrang) Tangsa language.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://igg.me/at/deepjyoti" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">http://igg.me/at/deepjyoti</span></a></div>
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</span><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:white;" dir="ltr"><span lang="en-US">The Tangsa are one of the many Naga groups in Northeast India, and one of the
t</span></span></font>he many things we are trying to do is to record their traditional songs and rituals before they are lost.<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span lang="en-US">If we can help Deep get the training he needs to do this work, then there will be great benefits for the tribal communities of Northeast India. This is just the start. I want to help more students
who are seriously about studying linguistics and helping to preserve the tribal languages to do this work.
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span lang="en-US">I’m asking for your help, either in the form of donations, or spreading the word. Here the link for more information about the project</span></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://igg.me/at/deepjyoti" target="_blank"><span lang="en-US">http://igg.me/at/deepjyoti</span></a></div>
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<p>Many thanks<br>
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics<br>
Department of Languages and Linguistics<br>
La Trobe University<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Website:
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</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3">Language data website:
</font><font size="3"><a id="NoLP" href="http://sealang.net/assam" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/assam</a><br>
Dictionary websites: <a id="NoLP" href="http://sealang.net/ahom" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/ahom</a>;
<a id="NoLP" href="http://sealang.net/singpho" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/singpho</a>;
<a id="NoLP" target="_blank" href="http://sealang.net/phake'" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/phake</a>
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</font></font><font size="3"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://sealang.net/mueshaungx;
<a id="NoLP" target="_blank" href="http://sealang.net/chamchang" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/chamchang</a><br>
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Linguistic data archived at::<br>
DoBeS: <a id="NoLP" href="http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS" tabindex="0">http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS</a> and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India<br>
ELAR: <a id="NoLP" href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk" tabindex="0">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a><br>
PARADISEC: <a id="NoLP" href="http://www.paradisec.org.au" tabindex="0">http://www.paradisec.org.au</a></font><br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">North East Indian Linguistics Society:
<a id="NoLP" href="http://sealang.net/neils" tabindex="0">http://sealang.net/neils</a></font><font face="Arial">
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