അൻവിത അബ്ബി

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.  (hardback); 978-90-04-24612-6
 Unwritten Languages of India (edited) 2017. Sahitya Akademi Publications, Delhi.  

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

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

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