Dr. Hilal Ahmad Dar (M.A., Ph.D. in Linguistics, M.A. in English) is a Senior Resource Person in the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL) at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru. With over seven years of experience, his work focuses on language documentation, descriptive linguistics, and sociolinguistics, contributing to the promotion, protection and development of lesser-known Indian languages