# അൻവിത അബ്ബി

| Anvita Abbi |
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| ഇന്ത്യൻ തദ്ദേശീയ ഭാഷകളിലെ ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനും പണ്ഡിതനുമാണെങ്കിൽ അൻവിത അബ്ബി. ഫോട്ടോ എടുത്തത്
സുഭാഷിഷ് പാനിഗ്രാഹി, 2019 |
| ജനനം |  (1949-01-09) 9 ജനുവരി 1949 വയസ്സ്) Agra, India |
| തൊഴിൽ(s) | Scholar and linguist |
| അവാർഡുകൾ | Padma Shri *Rashtriya Lok Bhasha Sammaan* All India Institute of Advanced Study Fellowship Gold Medal - Delhi University SOAS *Leverhume Professor* Max Planck Institute Visiting Scientist/> Kenneth Hale Award - Linguistic Society of America (2015) |
| വെബ്സൈറ്റ് | www.andamanese.net |

ഇന്ത്യക്കാരിയായ ഒരു ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞയും തെക്കേ എഷ്യയിലെ ന്യൂനസംഖ്യാഭാഷാകളെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള പരിജ്ഞാനത്തിൽ വിദഗ്ദ്ധയുമാണ് **പ്രൊഫസർ അൻവിത അബ്ബി (Professor Anvita Abbi)**. (ജനനം 9 ജനുവരി 1949). 2013 - ൽ ഇവർക്ക് പദ്മശ്രീ പുരസ്കാരം ലഭിച്ചു.

## വഹിച്ച സ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ

നിരവധി പ്രമുഖസ്ഥാങ്ങൾ അലങ്കരിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളവരാണ് അൻവിത. അവയിൽ ചിലത്:

* Director, Center of Oral and Tribal Literature Sahtiya Akademi,New Delhi India.
* Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and the President of the Linguistic society of India. She has served as an advisor to institutions such as UNESCO (since 2002) and Sahitya Akademi. She is also a life member of the *Linguistic Society of India* at their Dravidian Linguistics Association wing and has also sat on the editorial board of two journals, *Indian Linguistics* (1991–95) and the *International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics* (1992–96).

മറ്റു സ്ഥാനങ്ങളിൽ ചിലത്:

* Chairperson, Centre of Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 1995-97 and since 2007
* Proctor - Jawaharlal Nehru University
* Member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Review Committee- 1996
* Member - Advisory Committee - Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore - Ministry of Human Resource Development, India - 1996 & 1999
* Member - Advisory Board - Sahitya Akademi for *Bhasha Samman awards* in Tribal and Lesser known languages - since 2002
* Advisor - Linguapax Institute, UNESCO, since 2000
* Member - Board of Directors - Terralingua, Washington DC, USA - 1998, 2001-2004 and 2004-2006.
* Member - Review Committee - Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh - 2006
* External member - Centre of German Studies - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1990-2002
* External member - Centre of East Asian Studies - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1990-2002
* External member - Centre of French studies - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1990-2002
* Member - Governing body - Daulat Ram College - 1995-2001
* Member - Advisory Board - International University of Hindi, Wardha - 1998-2000
* External Member - Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi - 1995-2000
* Member - Bifurcation Committee - Centre of Afro-Asian Studies
* Member - Academic Council - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1995-1997
* Member - Telecommunication Committee - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1995-1996
* Member - Equivalence Committee - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1986-1988
* President - Music Society - Jawaharlal Nehru University - 1982-1986
* Advisor - Konkani Survey - Konkani Academy, Goa - 1991-1992
* Advisor - Post Graduate Hindi Linguistics Courses - University of Delhi - 1991-1992
* Director - South Asia Media Centre - Kansas State University, Kansas - 1975-76
* Member - Advisory Board - Sahitya Akademi for (Classical Language selection)

## മറ്റു സ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ

ലോകത്തെ പല സർവ്വകലാശാലകളിലും സന്ദർശകപദവി ഇവർ വഹിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്. താഴെയുള്ള സർവ്വകലാശാലകളിൽ അവർ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്:

* Kansas State University - 1986
* Advanced Centre of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad - 1990
* South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg - 1998
* United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Basque country, Spain - 2000
* Cornell University
* University of Syracuse
* University of Illinois
* University of Texas
* University of California, Berkeley campus
* University of California, Santa Barbara campus
* Ohio State University, Columbus
* Rutgers University, New Jersey
* Stuttgart University
* Max Planck Institute
* University of Heidelberg, Germany
* University of Toulouse, France
* University of Vitoria Gasteiz, The Basque Country, Spain
* Universitas Bung Hatta, Padang, Indonesia
* Kobe University, Japan

Anvita Abbi, an honorary life member of the Linguistic Society of America and the Dravidian Linguistics Association, sits on the Advisory Board of Terralingua and the UNESCO. She has also served as a Director Board member of Terralingua during 1998-2008.

## പ്രഭാഷണങ്ങൾ

Anvita Abbi has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses at various platforms and at many institutions of repute. A random selection of her lectures are:

| Venue | Date | Topic | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cairns Institute, James Cook University | 8 November 2010 | The endangered languages of the Andaman Islands: Reconstructing the knowledge-base of the Pre Neolithic tribes of India | Australia |
| Cairns Institute, James Cook University | 11 January 2011 | Semantics of inalienability and grammaticalization of body part terms in Great Andamanese | Australia |
| Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology | 18 September 2010 | In search of language contact between Jarawa and Aka-Bea: the languages of South Andaman | Germany |
| University of Würzburg | 1 July 2010 | Contact language in Northeast India | Germany |
| University of Oslo | 23 September 2010 | Hindi as a contact language of India | Norway |

## പ്രസിദ്ധീകരണങ്ങൾ

Anvita Abbi is credited with 19 books, authored, coauthored and edited. Her writings cover the typology, structures and ethno linguistic aspects of languages and their documentation. Her work spanned the entire Indian subcontinent and the most known among her works is her project, *Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese*.

* Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands
* A Manual of Linguistic Fieldwork and Structures of Indian Languages
* Language Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia (Select papers from the SALA XVIII)
* Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India. The Ethnic Space
* Language and The State. Perspectives on the Eighth Schedule
* Semantic Universals in Indian Languages
* India as a Linguistic Area Revisited
* Reduplication in South Asian Languages. An Areal, Topological and Historical Study
* Studies in Bilingualism
* Semantic Theories and Language Teaching
* Semantic Grammar of Hindi. A Study of Reduplication
* A Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English-Great Andamanese-Hindi
* A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language. An Ethnolinguistic Study. 2013. Brill Publications. Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-23527-4 (hardback); 978-90-04-24612-6
* Unwritten Languages of India (edited) 2017. Sahitya Akademi Publications, Delhi. ISBN 978-81-260-5266-0

Her Hindi short story anthology, *Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan*, was published in 1969.

* Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan (A Handful of Recognition). A collection of short stories 1969. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.

Anvita Abbi has also published over 80 articles in national and international peer reviewed journals. Some of her notable articles are:

* Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA)
* Universal Grammar, Language Evolution, and Documenting an Ancient Language. Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory
* Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa?

## അവാർഡുകളും പുരസ്കാരങ്ങളും

Anvita Abbi has been honoured by several institutions and establishments. She has held the position of the Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany for three years, 200, 2003 and 2010. She was a *Leverhume Professor* at the SOAS, University of London in 2011 and a fellow of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cornell University, New York, USA in 1990 and a visiting fellow of the La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2003. Abbi was a visiting professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia during 2010-2011. Some of the other honours she has received are:

* *Rashtriya Lok Bhasha Sammaan* - Gandhi Hindustani Sahitya Sabha - 2003
* Fellowship - All India Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla - 2001
* Gold Medal - Delhi University - 1970

In 2013, the Government of India honoured Anvita Abbi by awarding her the civilian award of Padma Shri.

## ഇവയും കാണുക

* Great Andamanese people
* Jarawa language (Andaman Islands)
* Önge language
* Lists of endangered languages

## അവലംബം

## അധികവായനയ്ക്ക്

* "Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese". SOAS, University of London. 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1 January 2006). "Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands". Lincom Europa. p. 117. ISBN 978-3895868665. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1 January 2001). "A Manual of Linguistic Fieldwork and Structures of Indian Languages". Lincom Europa. ISBN 978-3895864018. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi; R.S. Gupta; Ayesha Kidwai; R. S. Gupta; Ayesha Kidwai (1 January 2001). "Language Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia". p. 432. ISBN 978-8120817654. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1 July 1997). "Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India. The Ethnic Space". Motilal Banarsidass. p. 508. ISBN 978-8120813748. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* R.S. Gupta; Anvita Abbi; Kailash S. Aggarwal (1995). "Language and The State. Perspectives on the Eighth Schedule". Creative Books. p. 225. ISBN 8186318208. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1994). *Semantic Universals in Indian Languages*. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. p. 113. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1991). "India as a Linguistic Area Revisited". Pergamon Press. OCLC 470322193. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1991). *Reduplication in South Asian Languages. An Areal, Topological and Historical Study*. New Delhi: Allied. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
* Anvita Abbi (1986). *Studies in Bilingualism*. Bahri Publications. ASIN B002A9P3A6.
* Anvita Abbi (1986). "Semantic Theories and Language Teaching". Allied. ISBN 9788170230809. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (1980). "Semantic Grammar of Hindi. A Study of Reduplication". Bahri Publications. ISBN 978-8170340201. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
* Anvita Abbi (30 October 2011). *A Dictionary of the Great Andamanese Language: English-Great Andamanese-Hindi*. Ratna Sagar. p. 480. ISBN 978-9350361252.
* Mutthhi Bhar Pahcaan (A Handful of Recognition). A collection of short stories 1969. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.

## പുറത്തേക്കുള്ള കണ്ണികൾ

* "Padma Awards List". Indian Panorama. 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
* "Padma Shri awarded Anvita Abbi's live interview on National Channel DD1". *YouTube video*. Doordarshan. 13 February 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2014.