Video of Shobhana Chelliah introducing the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability' held at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts in New Delhi, India. At this workshop, held in conjunction with UNESCO, participants discuss their experiences of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' L. Somi Roy discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, and the relations between insurgency and writing systems in Manipur.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Lalnunthangi Chhangte discusses her experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in Mizoram, India. She talks about the legacy of colonialism in the area and the stigma toward indigenous groups.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Pauthang Haokip discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in Manipur, India.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Rex Khullar discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in the hills of Manipur, India. He talks about how village life can be disrupted when children have to go to larger cities to make money for their families.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Ana Roeschley discusses her experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in the Balkans. She talks about the siege of Sarajevo and the destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Marjing Mayanglambam discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, specifically in relation to the scripts used to write the Manipuri language.

The transgender community in India, commonly known as hijras, consists of people who were born as males but address themselves as females. They have been considered as the third gender in India for millennia and have had specific religious and sociocultural values and roles, but are forced to live in shadows in this day and age. Isolation of this community is also reflected in the way transgender characters are represented in Indian entertainment media. The study analyses two transgender themed films semiotically and the audience reception of those representations by 20 members of the transgender community. Semiotics is a helpful tool to understand the ways signs communicate ideas to viewers. This study applies syntagmatic and paradigmatic analyses to understand how images are used to represent and relay information to the audience. Reception theory along with double colonization has been incorporated in this study to analyse the ways in which the transgender community interprets the representations in entertainment media.

Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.

This inaugural volume of the CoRSAL Occasional Publications is a collection of traditional and personal texts in Thadou, Saihriem, Hrangkhol, and Ranglong, four languages of the Barak Valley region of Northeast India. The narratives were collected, transcribed, and translated by Dr. Pauthang Haokip, who is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India and a member of the Thadou community. This text collection includes grammatical analysis presented in the form of interlinear glossing and accompanied by audio recordings in the Languages of the Barak Valley collection in the Computational Resources of South Asian Languages archive. The collection will be of lasting interest to historical, comparative, and typological linguists, as well as speakers connecting or reconnecting with cultural and linguistic traditions.

This presentation explores the variation in interlinear-glossed text (IGT) in 5 closely related South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages with verb stem alternation, reduplicated adverbial modifiers, and pre-verbal directionals. While IGT is a rich representation of language, IGT for even closely related languages can look markedly different due to individual linguists’ divergent analyses. In comparing the discrepancies between representations of such features, we gain insight into the underlying analytic thinking of the annotator to reexamine and improve analyses.

Abraham Modi describes how he tends to the pineapple garden, using weeding and spacing techniques to grow larger and sweeter pineapples. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi make adu payek tiffins to take while going to harvest the fern tree (Tatchi) near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss rituals on the way to harvest the fern tree (Tatchi) near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. They describe luukan, used to prevent illness in livestock and meen, used for protection from flies. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss how banana leaves are used on the way to harvest the fern tree (Tatchi) near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Longdi Modi cuts wild banana leaves (homenborgohainiina/Musa aurantiaca) for the fern tree harvest and describes which wild banana leaves are best for this purpose. They arrive at Saage, the destination for harvesting the fern tree, approximately 7 km outside Peki Modi village. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. While preparing for the harvest, they describe how to tell when fern trees are ready for harvest based on smell, appearance, and the season. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Longdi Modi and Abraham Modi remove the bark and the hard part of fern tree (Chiyu yuuma), and Longdi Modi cuts off the top portion of fern tree. He explains that this part is now not good for consumption. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Longdi Modi and Abraham Modi continue to remove the bark and also the outer part of fern tree while Rilung Modi records. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. Longdi Modi and Abraham Modi complete the process of removing the bark and outer cover of the fern tree. Longdi Modi lays out the wild banana leaves which Abraham Modi cut earlier. They cut the fern tree into smaller pieces in preparation for the next step. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. While Longdi Modi thwacks the fern tree into very small pieces, they describe the area where they found this fern tree, and how to determine suitable topography for growing and harvesting them. They mention the quality of fern trees, comparing a lower quality where the delicate part is harder (chisap) and a higher quality where the delicate part of fern tree is softer (chiingin). Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. They complete the process of thwacking and begin mixing the thwacked fern tree, making holes in the base so that the water will not stagnate. After that, the mixture is covered by the leaf of Sago tree to keep it clean and to protect from decay or damage. Longdi Modi, an expert in harvesting fern trees, explains that it takes a week until the mixture is fully ready for human consumption. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. After the fern tree mixture has been kept covered by the leaf of Sago tree for a week, they return to collect the mixture. Longdi Modi selects the best portion of the mixture and puts it into the local basket for a male known as Tali. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. After bringing the fern tree mixture back to the village, Longdi Modi separates the fern tree mixture using a local made basket known as Chinu to separate the harder shards of fern tree from the softened parts. The hard parts are used to feed the pigs, and the soft parts are stored in a basket known as Jongkung. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.

Abraham, Longdi, and Rilung Modi discuss the fern tree (Tatchi) harvest near Peki Modi village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. In this final step, they prepare the fern tree for eating by roasting it over the fire. Longdi Modi describes the process, comparing it to preparing roti. They discuss recipes and other foods prepared with the fern tree, such as meats and vegetables. Time-aligned transcription and translation into English.